http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb?feed=rss&hitsPerPage=100&pg=6 emmineb's bookmarks on Netvouz http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/04/hacking_in_iraq.html emmineb Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:46:35 GMT http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/04/hacking_in_iraq.html emmineb Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:46:16 GMT http://www.siteadvisor.com/quizzes/spyware_0306.html McAffee SiteAdvisor offers quizzes to test users’ skills about sites that might lead to spam and spyware. emmineb Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:32:52 GMT http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/52866 Ink drawings by Ben Tolman: Huge, intricate, somewhat NSFW. There may be an issue with the side frame not scrolling in Firefox; if this is the case, click here, here, here, and here to see the galleries emmineb Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:00:55 GMT http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/52965 Honey, where you been so long? A music blog featuring almost daily links to mp3s of pre-war blues musicians. Previously mentioned in-thread here and here. emmineb Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:09:41 GMT http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/53660 The Golden Age of Piracy [video/audio] in the Atlantic peaked as the War of Spanish Succession ended. Piracy was a natural progression for the privateers [2] and buccaneers who had lost their sanctioned prey, and faced little resistance due to a lack of strong government in the majority of the American Colonies. Meanwhile captured naval seamen and slaves often willingly joined with pirates, or fled brutal treatment for the egalitarianism of piracy. This motley crew of motives were united in pirate democracy, laid down in a pirate code, preparing the way for democracy in the United States. But as the popularity of pirate life and pirate utopias grew strong, they became a pest to be mercilessly crushed by colonial opposition and the British navy. emmineb Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:16:23 GMT http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/52806 "Lawsonomy is the knowledge of Life and everything pertaining thereto." The collected works of Alfred Lawson - professional baseball player, aviation pioneer, economist, scientist, theologist, and philosopher - are available to all. [more inside] emmineb Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:02:46 GMT http://blogs.msdn.com/mgrier/archive/2004/07/14/182774.aspx However for all the groovyness that was win.ini, it was also a nightmare. People didn't edit it correctly and installation programs didn't modify it correctly. A setup that actually had an uninstaller was not that common and one that could edit win.ini to remove itself without commonly corrupting win.ini was even rarer. So then someone (I'm sorry, I don't know who and I'm not sure if they're a hero or a villian) invented a simple tree-structured namespace (very similar to the tree structured namespaces of naming services in vogue around the same time) with a semi-decent API around not only reading it but also writing it called the registry. The registry started to house two important kinds of meta-data: configuration an emmineb Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:39:41 GMT http://www.angelfire.com/pa/mmclar/Latin.html This is a Java Version of the Latin conjugation program. It will conjugate any regular verb into any of the six tenses of the indicative mood, and into either active or passive voice. You must enter one of the principal parts of the verb. emmineb Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:44:54 GMT http://www.millionauthors.com/ emmineb Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:42:37 GMT http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/2006/07/the_cognitive_science_of_art_i_1.php emmineb Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:37:44 GMT http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/02/09/murderous-manila-on-the-night-shift/ On the Night Shift | by James Fenton | The New York Review of Books emmineb Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:13:50 GMT http://myparanormallife.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-make-fake-ghost-video.html I thought this would be fun to share, since learning about video editing and 3D effects I've learnt a few things and also being as cheap as I am, I have put together a video tutorial on how to make a basic fake ghost video using only free software. The results will depend on how much time you want to put into it, for me I am going to use this technique to make a series of funny video shorts, well I hope they will be funny. The tutorial video took me about 20 minutes to make and the actual ghost video will take less than ten minutes. I also hope that this will give some insight into recognising fake ghost videos that claim to be real, something I will never do. How to make a fake ghost video. emmineb Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:26:08 GMT http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn8867-earth-rocks-could-have-taken-life-to-titan.html check "hard to kill in the dead sea" on cadmus emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:59:15 GMT https://thenextsystem.org/learn/collections/new-systems-possibilities-and-proposals We at the Next System Project want to help dispel the wrongheaded idea that “there is no alternative.” To that end, we have been gathering some of the most interesting and important proposals for political-economic alternatives – in effect, descriptions of new systems. Some are more detailed than others, but each seeks to envision something very different from today’s political economy. emmineb Sat, 27 Jan 2018 06:55:33 GMT http://www.learn-japanese.info/grammar.html This page is not meant to be comprehensive. It is merely a brief summary of a few points about Japanese grammar that beginners might find useful. 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I hope Paul won't mind if I just reprint his entire Better Gmail is Gmail 2.0 post here, since it says it all, elegantly and forcefully: Gina at Lifehacker has created the #1 most important tool any Gmail user needs. It's an add-in, called Better Gmail, combining all the major Greasemonkey hacks for Firefox-based Gmail users, and it turns Gmail from indispensable into ... really indispensable. I'm already using most of the pieces as discrete Greasemonkey hacks, but bundling them all like this is a work of genius. Just install it. Now. Lifehacker also has a good tutorial on using the extension. A really interesting side note: as Better Gmail is a firefox extension, it's not available for IE users. I emmineb Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:04:18 GMT http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/factsheets/doeymp0010.shtml It came as a great surprise to most [...] that nature had beaten humans to the punch by creating the world’s first nuclear reactors. Indeed, he argued, nature had a two-billion-year head start. Fifteen natural fission reactors have been found in three different ore deposits at the Oklo mine in Gabon, West Africa. These are collectively known as the Oklo Fossil Reactors. emmineb Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:58:19 GMT https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/on-legal-advice-mass-murder-being-triggered-into-insomnia-and-somewhere-in-there-my-ex.39168/ Sufficient Velocity emmineb Sat, 10 Jun 2017 08:51:03 GMT http://www.opensubsystems.org/patterns/index.html Open Patterns emmineb Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:09:41 GMT https://www.nap.edu/catalog/11630/out-of-thin-air-dinosaurs-birds-and-earths-ancient-atmosphere is but a slice of a forever-changing entity and is greatly different from the atmosphere at most times in Earth’s history. It is currently suited to us mammals—hence the high diversity of mammals alive today|Two not-so-ancient versions, in astrobiological timescales, of our “Earth-like atmosphere” very nearly wiped out our furry ancestors some 250 mil.yrs ago and then tried again some 200 mil.yrs ago. If a small premammal named Thrinaxodon, whose delicate skulls have been collected in lowest Triassic strata, had not survived, what would life on Earth be like now? Perhaps we would have a diverse and unbelievably beautiful world of birds, in the air, on the ground, diving deeply into the sea, and perhaps they would be the dominant animals on Earth. emmineb Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:52:09 GMT http://www.outilsfroids.net/ emmineb Sat, 24 May 2008 09:03:12 GMT http://www.paperairplaneshq.com/sitemap-page-order.html * Paper Planes index.html * A Brief History of Paper a-brief-history-of-paper.html * A Brief History of Flying a-brief-history-of-flying.html * Paper Folding Basics paper-folding-basics.html * Paper Craft paper-craft.html * Basic Aerodynamics basic-aerodynamics.html * Common Folds common-folds.html * Flights and Launching flights-and-launching.html * Terminology terminology.html * othersites othersites.php * Paper Airplanes Step by step instructions, with illustrations and videos on how to fold all 50 paper airplanes. We don't just show you how to make a paper airplane. We give easy to fo emmineb Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:38:52 GMT http://tutorialblog.org/photo-retouching-skin/ Hoe to retouch skin in photoshop emmineb Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:37:42 GMT http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/36588/Staff_List_100_Awesome_Music_Videos emmineb Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:48:59 GMT http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com/files/graphic-approval_files/pollkatzmainGRAPHICS_8911_image001.gif emmineb Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:57:59 GMT http://popurls.com/ popurls.com: popular urls to the latest web buzz emmineb Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:20:28 GMT http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1 The record for incremental reform in the cognitive style of PowerPoint is not promising. In the many release versions of PP, the intellectual level has not been raised. New releases have drifted toward ingrown self-parody, featuring ever more elaborated PP Phluff and presenter therapy. These changes have made the new version different from the previous version, but not smarter. There are no incentives for meaningful change in a monopoly product with an 86% gross profit margin, only incentives to make it different, somehow, from the previous release. PP competes only with itself. emmineb Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:22:30 GMT https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3625266/ Unconscious neural activity has been repeatedly shown to precede and potentially even influence subsequent free decisions. However, to date, such findings have been mostly restricted to simple motor choices, and despite considerable debate, there is no evidence that the outcome of more complex free decisions can be predicted from prior brain signals. Here, we show that the outcome of a free decision to either add or subtract numbers can already be decoded from neural activity in medial prefrontal and parietal cortex 4 s before the participant reports they are consciously making their choice. emmineb Wed, 31 Jul 2019 07:41:17 GMT http://www.alltomlinser.se/Default.asp?sAction=Search&sText=focus%20dailies Sveriges Billigaste Linser På Nätet! emmineb Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:58:49 GMT http://www.procon.org/ <rhetoric> emmineb Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:10:11 GMT https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19980237460.pdf Abstract The Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System (ProSEDS) space experiment will demonstrate the use of an electrodynamic tether propulsion system. The flight experiment is a precursor to the more ambitious electrodynamic tether upper stage demonstration mission which will be capable of orbit raising, lowering and inclination changing—all using electrodynamic thrust. ProSEDS, which is planned to fly in 2000, will use the flight-proven Small Expendable Deployer System (SEDS) to deploy a tether (5-km bare wire plus 15-km spectra) from a Delta II upper stage to achieve ∼0.4N drag thrust, thus deorbiting the stage. The experiment will use a predominantly ‘bare’ tether for current collection in lieu of the endmass collector and insulated tether emmineb Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:17:24 GMT http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20060915-000004.html Meditation: Getting Started emmineb Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:56:09 GMT http://www.rwaag.org/daily3 Set II - The Role of Women in the Art of Ancient Greece emmineb Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:30:18 GMT http://recettes.viabloga.com/news/blanquette-de-veau Blanquette de Veau: Mots-clés : Viandes, Assez facile, Assez long, Moyennement cher emmineb Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:20:46 GMT http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/index.htm#index emmineb Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:02:04 GMT http://www.ripit4me.org/faq.html A freeware utility that helps you backup your copy protected DVDs emmineb Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:55:40 GMT http://www.roughtype.com/index.php Nicholas Carr's Blog emmineb Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:53:25 GMT http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?submit-button=search&search-form=object/object_month_august2006.html&_IXSESSION_=4Qp7vPkgqZc This gruesome figure was cast from the corpse of a murderer, taken straight from the gallows to be nailed to a cross and flayed in order to settle an artistic debate. Three Royal Academicians - the sculptor Thomas Banks and painters Sir Benjamin West and Richard Cosway - conducted this experiment to prove their belief that most depictions of the Crucifixion were anatomically incorrect. In 1801 the three artists approached the eminent surgeon, Joseph Constantine Carpue, for his help in finding a suitable subject. The only corpses available for dissection at this time were those of executed criminals but, on October 2nd, an opportunity arose when Carpue was called to Chelsea Hospital. One of the captains, named James Legg, had been arguing with a fellow pensi emmineb Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:09:10 GMT http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/01/110801fa_fact_lane?currentPage=all The New Yorker emmineb Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:39:48 GMT https://www.schneier.com/ emmineb Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:02:26 GMT http://www.pc-help.org/security/scrap.htm What if there were a type of file that could hide its nature from you; might appear to be any file type, and when clicked with your mouse, could run as a program -- potentially as a hostile program -- when you least expected? Such a file type does exist. Presently, most Windows users don't know of its existence. But let's start at the beginning, shall we? The Beginning Starting back in the days of Windows 3.1 (around 1992 I believe), Microsoft introduced an old idea under a new name: Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). Complex in its details, OLE is simple in concept. It allows the inclusion of data from one type of file or document, within another; and it allows multiple applications on the same desktop to share information. emmineb Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:12:18 GMT http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-unique-web-communities-that-you-wont-forget/ The best way to define Scribd would be to call it a Youtube for documents. It is an online document library where users can search, browse, rate, upload, and share all kind of documents: jokes, facts, stories, document templates, presentations, and even amazon bestsellers. emmineb Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:13:01 GMT https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/04/see-how-your-citys-climate-might-change-by-2070-feature/ emmineb Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:28:03 GMT http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/~hanrahan/talks/selfillustrating/walk001.html What is a self-illustrating phenomenon? A self-illustrating phenomenon is an image that is generated automatically as a result of an experiment. More importantly, it is an image that exposes the phenomenon behind the observation. It often represents an answer to a question. Here is an example. Ernst Chladni, a musician and amateur scientist, found a way to make visible the vibrations caused by sound waves. He covered metal and wooden plates with sand and ran a violin bow against them. When the plate vibrates, sand collects at the stationary nodes, having been shaken from the moving regions. These nodes are the zero-crossings of the standing wave that produces the sound. Being a musician, he was interested in the theory of sounds and he used the tools at his emmineb Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:00:58 GMT http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/ship-shape%20and%20Bristol%20fashion.html meaning and origin <lingua> emmineb Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:08:23 GMT http://www.flavinscorner.com/scibadly3.htm Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) worked for thirty-two years at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and taught logic for five years at the Department of Mathematics at the Johns Hopkins University. Both positions came to an end due to budget cutbacks and Peirce spent the last twenty-five years of his life struggling to support himself. At mid-life, Peirce began to publish on ‘Pragmatism’ (Peirce 1905; Peirce 1931-1958; vol. 5), by suggesting that “...all the followers of science are animated by a cheerful hope that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they apply it (Peirce 1878; p. 299).” In support of science as constructing hypotheses, deriving consequences from these emmineb Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:37:37 GMT http://simplisticsmovielinks.blogspot.com/index.html Looks for whole movies on the internet by finding parts & piecing together (per Lifehacker) emmineb Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:21:23 GMT http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2182002 Full disclosure: It was late at night, in a fit of furtive self-Googling, that I discovered the first Amazon customer review of my debut book of fiction. "Superb," wrote Grady Harp of Los Angeles. "Fascinating ... addictive." Not to mention "profound." Such extravagance should have aroused suspicion, but I was too busy basking in the glow of a five-star rave to worry about the finer points of Harp's style. Sure, he'd spelled my name wrong, but hadn't he also judged me "a sensitive observer of human foibles"? Only when I noticed the "Top 10 Reviewer" tag did I wonder whether Grady Harp was more than just a satisfied customer. After a brief e-mail exchange, my publicist confirmed that she'd solicited Grady Harp's review. emmineb Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:02:05 GMT http://www.fas.org/man/smedley.htm Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC: War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. emmineb Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:59:16 GMT http://spacespin.org/article.php/spitzer-glow-universe-first-objects New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected in a prior study originated from clumps of the very first objects of the Universe. The recent data indicate this patchy light is splattered across the entire sky and comes from clusters of bright, monstrous objects more than 13 billion light-years away. "We are pushing our telescopes to the limit and are tantalizingly close to getting a clear picture of the very first collections of objects," said Dr. Alexander Kashlinsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., lead author on two reports to appear in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. "Whatever these objects are, they are intrinsically incredibly bright and very different from anything in existe emmineb Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:24:46 GMT http://www.textile.unsw.edu.au/Fax&Fix/stain1.htm * Never use very hot water for washing stained garments as this often sets the stains and makes them very difficult or impossible to remove. * Some stains are more easily removed by washing if they are soaked first in cold water, e.g. mud and blood stains, and the brown stain from shoe inner soles. * The use of chemicals is required for removing certain stains. Carry out this treatment before washing. Remove all traces of the chemical. * To apply a stain removing agent to fabric, place a fold of clean rag underneath the stain so that any surplus moisture is absorbed. * To prevent a ring forming around the stain, work from the outside of the stain, in an uneven circular shape, towards the centre, dabbing it very lightly with a pad of clean r emmineb Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:14:02 GMT http://webstandards.raquedan.com/ Building the web, the standards way! CSS, XHTML, Accessibility, Usability, AJAX, Web 2.0, Adobe emmineb Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:52:13 GMT http://www.statcounter.com/ emmineb Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:48:13 GMT http://www.physorg.com/news70539481.html The radar scatters a very low-intensity signal across a wide range of frequencies, so a TV or radio tuned to any one frequency would interpret the radar signal as a very weak form of static. "It doesn't interfere because it has a bandwidth that is thousands of times broader than the signals it might otherwise interfere with," Walton said. emmineb Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:13:56 GMT http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/ A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity <mathematics> <cellular automata> emmineb Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:06:45 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2015-steve-bannon/ It’s nearing midnight as Steve Bannon pushes past the bluegrass band in his living room and through a crowd of Republican congressmen, political operatives, and a few stray Duck Dynasty cast members. He’s trying to make his way back to the SiriusXM Patriot radio show, broadcasting live from a cramped corner of the 14-room townhouse he occupies a stone’s throw from the Supreme Court. It’s late February, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is in full swing, and Bannon, as usual, is the whirlwind at the center of the action. emmineb Mon, 30 Jan 2017 11:38:57 GMT http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2006/05/kbr-iraq.html blog <<architecture>> emmineb Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:16:05 GMT http://technosociology.org/ emmineb Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:06:43 GMT http://web.mit.edu/ssp/publications/working_papers/wp04-1.pdf SSP Working Paper June 2004 Marc DeVore Marc DeVore is a doctoral candidate in the MIT Political Science Department. wp 04-1 The Airborne Illusion: Institutions and the Evolution of Postwar Airborne Forces SSP Working Paper June 2004 Marc DeVore Marc DeVore is a doctoral candidate in the MIT Political Science Department. wp 04-1 The Airborne Illusion: Institutions and the Evolution of Postwar Airborne Forces emmineb Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:54:02 GMT http://www.theanimereview.com/ emmineb Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:40:09 GMT http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.se/2012/05/democracys-arc.html emmineb Tue, 06 Dec 2016 04:53:46 GMT https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/ emmineb Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:46:33 GMT https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge-index emmineb Thu, 13 Jul 2017 06:52:09 GMT http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~infocom/The%20Website/dirt.html emmineb Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:32:28 GMT http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p208511/html/cover.xhtml?referer=202&page=0# 1. Meeting the predator 2. Dry season (Yegge) in the stone country 3. The wisdom of the balanced rock: The parallel universe and the prey perspective Second section 4. A wombat wake: In memoriam Birubi 5. ‘Babe’: The tale of the speaking meat Third section 6. Animals and ecology: Towards a better integration 7. Tasteless: Towards a food-based approach to death emmineb Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:19:55 GMT http://www.humansfuture.org/index.htm Predicting the future is by no means an easy task, it requires considerable erudition, creativity, imagination and wisdom. Our website provides a vast database of articles and ideas which examine the future of humanity and how science, technology and evolution may shape our common future. The main categories of the site are listed below, choose whatever you like to start with. emmineb Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:18:19 GMT http://www.clim-past.net/7/487/2011/ Abstract. To understand the three-dimensional ocean circulation patterns that have occurred in past continental geometries, it is crucial to study the role of the present-day continental geometry and surface (wind stress and buoyancy) forcing on the present-day global ocean circulation. This circulation, often referred to as the Conveyor state, is characterised by an Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) with a deep water formation at northern latitudes and the absence of such a deep water formation in the North Pacific. emmineb Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:32:21 GMT http://www.cow.net/transcript.txt emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:51:03 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Management-Innovation/dp/0875845851 The author, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, asks why some well-managed companies that stay on top of new technology and practice quality customer service can still falter. His own research brought a surprising answer to that question. Christensen suggests that by placing too great an emphasis on satisfying customers' current needs, companies fail to adapt or adopt new technology that will meet customers' unstated or future needs, and he argues that such companies will eventually fall behind. Christensen calls this phenomenon "disruptive technology" and demonstrates its effects in industries as diverse as the manufacture of hard-disk drives and mass retailing. He goes on to offer solutions by providing strategies for anticipating changes i emmineb Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:47:18 GMT http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/444/html Social Media as Carrier Wave for Millenarian Contagion | Berger | Perspectives on Terrorism emmineb Tue, 23 May 2017 22:39:30 GMT http://www.themixingbowl.org/ torrents for House, Trance, IDM, Breaks, Hard House, Techno, Drum & Bass, Hip-Hop, Big Beat, Trip-Hop, Turntablism or whatever spastic genre emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:43:23 GMT http://johnmckay.blogspot.se/2012/02/monsters-of-islandia.html map iceland medieval emmineb Tue, 13 Jun 2017 03:49:26 GMT http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB208/index.htm Washington D.C., November 10, 2006 - Bush administration nominee for Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates had a long career in government which showed a notable combination of ambition and caution, according to a new book by Archive senior analyst John Prados [Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006)] which deals with Gates among its much wider coverage of the agency since its inception. As Director of Central Intelligence in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, Gates faced criticism for moving slowly with reforming the agency for the new era, and thus missing a moment of extraordinary opportunity that occurred at that time. In earlier posts at top levels of the CIA, Gates figured in the Iran-Contra affair, in which he emmineb Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:34:26 GMT http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18998 An essay on il Buffone <italy> emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:34:21 GMT http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1765/20130508 In 1942, Walls described the concept of a ‘nocturnal bottleneck’ in placental mammals, where these species could survive only by avoiding daytime activity during times in which dinosaurs were the dominant taxon. Walls based this concept of a longer episode of nocturnality in early eutherian mammals by comparing the visual systems of reptiles, birds and all three extant taxa of the mammalian lineage, namely the monotremes, marsupials (now included in the metatherians) and placentals (included in the eutherians). This review describes emmineb Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:49:29 GMT http://www.animereviews.org/ emmineb Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:40:31 GMT http://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/0314policyforumff.pdf David Lazer,Ryan Kennedy,Gary King,Alessandro Vespignani Large errors in fl u prediction were largely avoidable, which offers lessons for the use of big data emmineb Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:57:15 GMT https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/09/the-rise-of-phantom-FDI-in-tax-havens-damgaard.htm According to official statistics, Luxembourg, a country of 600,000 people, hosts as much foreign direct investment (FDI) as the United States and much more than China. Luxembourg’s $4 trillion in FDI comes out to $6.6 million a person. FDI of this size hardly reflects brick-and-mortar investments in the minuscule Luxembourg economy. 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