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Panama City is a good city in United States and state of Florida. This city is most popular for its destination nightlife sightseeing and one of the most attraction cities for tourists. I went to this city with my friends in holidays. We reserved our hotel and air tickets by searching on net with hotel reservations which give a lot of hotel sites but we choose a site which was giving discount of
The Hainan Journey Voyage
Woke up to our first day of rain in Yanshuo fortunately we were leaving today. After breakfast we finished packing up and began our travels to Hainan Our bus to Guilin was stopping constantly trying to gather any stragglers to bump their wage for the day I guess It ended up arriving in Guilin far later than we anticipated but we were lucky that another was running in an hour. After some corn on
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Bus 3 or 4 Left or Right
We arrived in Sanya bus station at 1pm in the blistering heat dressed for rain as it had been in Yangshuo. Our tops were sticking to us in a matter of minutes. To find our hostel the only instructions we had were get on bus number 3 or 4 obviously these buses were going two directions so I guessed left after a few minutes we were no wiser and standing with all the weight of our bags on a packed
Medical Fun with Christmas Carols
Warning: If you are offended by humor that depends on psychiatric and medical diagnoses, read no further.
Disclaimer: Before anyone complains (and in this age of exaggerated political correctness, someone surely will), let me make it clear that I mean no disrespect to people suffering from the illnesses mentioned below. I have the greatest empathy for sick people, and I have encountered several of these conditions in my own family and have actually experienced four of them myself. Humor about them doesn’t offend me, and I hope it will not offend you. Also, my mention of Christmas and Hanukkah songs is not intended to endorse any religious belief.
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After a year of serious talk about mostly discouraging things, I thought it was time for a totally frivolous post to cheer us up with a little holiday humor. A friend sent me a list of “Christmas Carols for the Psych Ward.” I thought they were funny, and I’ve copied the best of them below. I’ve added a few of my own for other medical diagnoses, and then I added several about complementary and alternative medicine.
Christmas Carols for the Psych Ward
SCHIZOPHRENIA: Do You Hear What I Hear?
MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER: We Three Kings Disoriented Are
AMNESIA: I Don’t Know if I’ll be Home for Christmas
NARCISSISTIC: Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me
MANIC: Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees and Fire Hydrants and….
PARANOID: Santa Claus is Coming to Get Me
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER: Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells…
AUTISTIC: Jingle Bell Rock and Rock and Rock and Rock …
SENILE DEMENTIA: Walking in a Winter Wonderland Miles From My House In My Slippers and Robe
Christmas Carols for Other Medical Conditions
Argyria: Silver Balls
Mumps: The Chipmunk Song
Depression: Blue Christmas.
Rosacea: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rhinophyma patient
Hypothyroidism: Baby It’s Cold Outside (and Inside too)
Obesity: We want some figgy pudding. (from We Wish You a Merry Christmas)
Scotomas (defects in visual field): O Holey Night
Edentulous: All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (along with the rest of them).
Alcoholic: Here We Come A-Wassailing
Deaf: Silent Night
Tinnitus: Jingle Bells
Narcolepsy: Shepherds! Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep
Christmas Carols for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Chiropractors: Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (and we can fix the resulting subluxations).
Acupuncture: The Twelve Acupoints of Christmas
Homeopathy: Kissin’ By The Mistletoe [Viscum album, one drop of mistletoe extract diluted to 30C and deposited on a sugar pill. Shaken, not stirred.].
Customer for penis enlargement products: I Have a Little Dreidel
Probiotics: The Friendly Beasts
Colon cleansing: Come, All Ye Feces-full
Herbalists: “Greens/Leaves”
Faith healers: Rise Up (out of your wheelchairs) Shepherds and Follow
TCM practitioners: From East to West
CAM believers responding to SBM: You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
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Playing with song titles can be great fun. Think up some of your own and post them in the comments section. It makes a great holiday pastime or party game.
Best Wishes for Whatever You Celebrate: Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Newton’s Birthday and Winter Solstice to All!
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The fall of UK science | Bad Astronomy
I have been quiet about the woes being suffered in the UK over science funding. That’s mostly because it’s hard enough keeping up with the attacks here in the U.S.! But the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has been underfunded and in trouble financially for a while now, and they announced last week that they will make up the gap by basically slashing and burning major amounts of science research in the UK.
How much? Well, gone will be the UK participation in SOHO, Cassini, Venus Express, and XMM. These are major projects, and just in astronomy. Also gone will be many more projects — some critical — across the science spectrum.
I don’t have the experience or insight to understand all this, but you can read what astronomer Ian O’Neill, Ian Douglas at the Telegraph, and the e-astronomer have to say. Brian Cox, a physicist and friend, has been tweeting about this relentlessly as well. Brian has some insight on the political aspects of this too, and is a particularly good source of information.
I don’t know how this will all fall out. The money shortfall is a pittance — about $U.S. 200M — compared to so many other programs that don’t contribute to the public good nearly as much as science does. If this does not get straightened out (and it doesn’t look like it will) then this is a great tragedy for the UK and indeed for the world of science.
Futurist Tree Alights Milan
December 18, 2009 – January 18, 2010
Milan (between Cairoli and the Castello Sforzesco)
Curated by Stefania Morici and Federico Poletti
L’assessore alla Cultura, Finazzer Flory, ha dichiarato: “Con l’Albero di Luce lo spazio antistante il Castello Sforzesco, uno dei luoghi simboli di Milano, prende vita per accogliere un omaggio fatto di luce rivolto ai milanesi e ai turisti in visita in città . L’installazione, interpretando il principio della simultaneità futurista, esprime le potenzialità di un intrigante binomio fra tecnologia e arte con la volontà di costruire un ponte ideale verso il 2015, l’anno dell’Expo, per allestire una nuova e vivace scena urbana capace di dialogare a livello internazionale con le altre realtà metropolitane”. link
Historic Traveler
Historic Traveler is a blog that inspires you to dig deeper into the rich history of the places you travel to. A breezy read about places throughout North America.
Turn Your PC Into a Digital Laboratory
This USB microscope can magnify items from 10x magnification to 200x magnification. The picture is displayed on your PC monitor. Videos as well as pictures can be recorded for future observation. The device has a ruler function where precise dimensions can be defined using your mouse. Once defin
Dearborn’s Camaro-Eater: The 1970 Mustang Boss 302
The last rose of summer. That's what Jacques Passino of Ford racing fame called the Boss 302. "the engine and the car did more than we could have expected it to do It was a winner, it was a good car, a good street machine. But I guess you could call it the last rose of summer, because right af
Are Trackpads Making Our Hands Mutate? [Mutation]
Hemmant Jha recently noticed something odd. Two fingers on his dominant hand are somehow more rigid and firm than any of the others. He suspects that years of two-finger scrolling on his MacBook Pro are the cause.
I have slim and flexible fingers. Not given to needless physical activity like working out or climbing mountains, this author has made enough lifestyle choices that have allowed said fingers to remain slender and supple. And I'm hypermobile. These digits are perfect tools for fine artwork and penmanship, the manufacture, assembly and disassembly of electronic or mechanical devices – anything that requires a high degree of precision.
Having remained comfortable with these digits for so long, it was more than a little disconcerting to notice that the first two fingers of my right and left hands no longer looked like they belonged to the same person. Not horribly disfigured or anything, but quite obviously different in appearance and feel. The two digits in question on the right hand are more muscular and firm. Gone was the supple flex, replaced by a somewhat robust rigidity. Could it be the incessant tapping away on the keyboard? Unlikely, since I use both hands and more than just two fingers to type.
It's the two-finger scroll on my Macbook Pro. During the last 3 years, I've used the two-finger scroll for everything from web browsing to Illustrator and Photoshop – it's a marvelous and indispensable tool that, once experienced, one cannot do without.
Fans of Asterix and Obelisk will remember the comic book where the duo participates in the Olympics, only to compete against athletes honed for the express purpose of excelling at one sport [and one sport only]. My condition brings to mind the champion javelin thrower who had one scrawny arm, while the other ballooned with muscle – at this rate, that's where I will be very soon. Has anyone else noticed anything similar?
Reprinted with permission from Think More.
‘Futurismi Futuristi’ in Torino
Futurismi Futuristi
December 18, 2009 – January 28, 2010
Padaglione Lavanderia – Ex ospedale psichiatrico - Collegno (Torino)
Curated by Silvia Mira
L’esposizione vuole mettere in evidenza la creatività che il movimento futurista, a cento anni dalla fondazione, è ancora capace di generare nel mondo dell’arte, coinvolgendo non solo la pittura e la grafica ma anche, con risultati di particolare rilievo, le arti applicate, l’arredamento e la moda.
Boccioni exhibit in Cosenza
Omaggio a Umberto Boccioni
December 19, 2009 – January 31, 2010
Galleria Nazionale di Cosenza + Museo d’ Arte dell’ Otto e Novecento di Rende
Curated by Nella Mari
Catalog (Silvana Editoriale)
Moby Gives a Tour of His Incredible Drum Machine Collection [Collections]
In this really fascinating interview, electronic musician Moby reveals his cache of vintage drum machines and keyboards. Get ready to look lustfully at, in Moby's words, "the nerdiest equipment ever."
It's especially interesting because he doesn't dismiss modern software conveniences—he uses them and likes them, and understands their value. But he also uses these old-school drum machines for their simplicity and their physical presence, and often for their visual appeal. It makes me like Moby, so, you know, good job. [Motherboard.tv]
Hysterical Negativism about Copenhagen
No, I didn’t love the outcome in Copenhagen. However — to all who blame the United States and President Obama and the other developed countries for the lack of a binding deal in Copenhagen, here is the person who actually worked hard to get something accepted in the final hours of COP15.
“The climate secretary, Ed Miliband, today accuses China, Sudan, Bolivia and other leftwing Latin American countries of trying to hijack the UN climate summit and “hold the world to ransom” to prevent a deal being reached.
In an article in the Guardian, Miliband says the UK will make clear to those countries holding out against a binding legal treaty that “we will not allow them to block global progress“.
“We cannot again allow negotiations on real points of substance to be hijacked in this way,” he writes in the aftermath of the UN summit in Copenhagen, which climaxed with what was widely seen as a weak accord, with no binding emissions targets, despite an unprecedented meeting of leaders.
Miliband said there must be “major reform” of the UN body overseeing the talks – the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – and on the way negotiations are conducted. He is said to be outraged that UN procedure allowed a few countries to nearly block a deal.”
DemocracyNow, a highly respected alternative news outlet, and some very influential climate and environmental groups have bent over backwards to be as negative and hysterical as possible in blaming the U.S. for the Copenhagen “failure”.  They have gone out of their way to call the entire summit a mess, a sham, and worse. And they blame the U.S. instead of the countries that almost nearly hijacked the entire summit.
These groups and DN need to take a deep breath and do some studying of the situation before they continue to make accusations. Democracy Now was even factually incorrect in their Monday show and that’s probably the case with some other groups that have been as publicly shaming as possible about the role of the U.S. in Copenhagen. They need to look to the East for some more answers as to why the summit didn’t give them the outcome they wanted.
George Monbiot was interviewed on Democracy Now on Monday and he was so negative I thought he was going to declare the World’s End on the spot.  He said Obama actually ruined the entire summit. That is absolutely untrue.  Read more at The Guardian.
Oceanic: Virgin Submarines Will Dive Deep [Submarines]
What's next for Virgin? After nightclubs, record labels, gadgets, cellphone carriers, airlines and space ships, Sir Richard Branson is getting into subs. Fifteen miles from his Necker Island, is the Puerto Rican Trench, deepest spot in the Atlantic. They'll dive!
Time Mag has this interview, the first place I've heard of the Virgin Oceanic project. From the sounds of it, they're still thinking about the subs themselves.
What hasn't been explored at all is the depths of the oceans. So we're in the process of building something called Virgin Aquatic, which is going to be submarines to go 35,000 feet underwater. The oceans need exploring - we know nothing about what's going on under 25,000 feet. I have an island called Necker Island and 15 miles from there is the deepest place in the whole of the Atlantic, the Puerto Rican Trench. It's quite likely that we'll set up a scientific and exploration center on Necker to send out expeditions to explore that trench and other trenches in the world.
The technical challenge is finding materials that can withstand the pressure at 35,000 feet. It's almost easier to build a spaceship to go into space than to build a vessel that can withstand the pressures at 35,000 feet. But we think we can do it.
Peter Ha susses more details from him at the eight minute mark in this video:
In the video, Branson says that building space ships and subs are on par in terms of difficulty of hull designs that can resist great pressure. He also says that before the ultra deep dive vehicles are created, they'll start with light craft that can travel in the 1000 to 10000 foot range. And the goal, like Virgin Galactic, is both scientific and passenger, commercial.
Jailbroken iPhones Get Support for Bluetooth Keyboards [IPhone]
Good news for those wanting to use a physical Bluetooth keyboard with their iPhones: Now you can. The catch is that you'll need to jailbreak your iPhone and that input doesn't work outside of one particular app at the moment.
Apparently all you need to do is download the driver, Bluetooth Keyboard Driver, through Cydia, install the demo app, and let your keyboard connect with your iPhone. Simple as that. Anyone given this a test run yet? [Ringwald via Mod Your i]
