Human Hand behind earthquake and Tsunami?

This question shouldn't be considered as a serious one. Anyway, take a look at this article.
Was this an earthquake creation experiment that ran out of control? Many countries are working on methods of creating massive earthquakes as means to defeat the enemy. The technologically advanced countries are working on this project.

If an earthquake and Tsunami can be created artificially and directed to a specific enemy, it can literally create havoc to the enemy. By India Daily

Tsunami account from Burning Man gate manager

This is Pearl. I am currently in Bangkok waiting for a flight I have cajoled my way onto. I am one of the survivors. With only scratches, briuses and infections I am fine. Everything I own (almost - a small plastic jesus doll made it through!) is gone. My house was wiped out, as were 3000 hotel rooms, around 600 other resident/vacation homes and almost all the business' in the area.

Our house was 150 feet from the beach, that is THE hardest hit beach in Thailand. As water rushed into our house and then ripped open the second story wall, I leapt off our second story roof and swam and swam and swam, riding the wave deep into the jungle, as it destroyed building after building, ripping up trees and spinning diesel trucks into the air. All this with me in the center of it clinging to anything that floats and swimming to avoid the standing buildings or trees that crushed and impaled many others. The wave deposited me, a small swedish girl and a 60 foot poilice cruiser (medium sized steel patrol boat - around 20 tons) 1 kilometer from the beach - in the jungle.

For the next 5 hours i set up a triage center and cared for dead and dying foreigners. Finally we got helicopters in, and I made my way back towards the main town. I found Karin (my girlfriend) and collapsed. We had both assumed each other dead as the destruction was so massive. She had climbed a coconut tree, wrapped her arms and legs and held on. The water kept pullng the tree and her under, but it and she survived. That day I saw around 100 bodies. The next day, another 200, and the day we left there were cattle trucks full of rotting corpses being taken to Phuket.

After days of no news, dwindling food and water - a group of divers virtually kidnapped a driver to take us away. Every few hours someone had created a rumor that another wave was coming, or there was a gas explosion, or the Muslim rebels were attacking. None were true, but it caused massive panic and killed many more people. We were already under massive psychological strain, and this just made it insane. We ran.

My town is gone. There are probably 2% of the original buildings in a recognizable form. I am very lucky to even be making my way home. The U.S. goverment offered me a phone call, a toothbrush, a paperback book and a temporary passport. No hotel, no food, no flight home. I was told that I could take out a loan if I could list three people who would vouch for me at home. The process would only take a few days. I was alone, injured (superficially - but I sure did look bad), no possesions, no money and my government offered my a book.

I don't know who or what to acknowledge for my presence. That will take a lot of soul-searching. I am certainly among the luckiest people in Thailand right now. According to local news it looks like my town had a SURVIVAL rate of 60%. Please think of what you value. Look around, have you given a hug to someone recently? Anyone? If everything you had were taken away, who would you turn too? In the end it is each other, not the things, that make the world spin. I won't ever forget that.
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China closes 1,129 porn web sites

This is what i'd call a good news.
The related departments have closed 1,278 illegal web sites and 114 sites promoting gambling, superstitious activities and cult propaganda according to the information provided by the informers. By China Daily.

French Spiderman climbs world's tallest building

A French urban climber who calls himself Spiderman climbed to the top of the world's tallest building on Saturday — Taipei 101.
The climber Alain Robert took almost four hours to reach the top of the 1,679-foot Taipei 101. by China Daily

Tsunami death toll hits 123,000

The death toll from the Indian Ocean disaster rose dramatically today to 123,000 after Indonesia said almost 80,000 had died in that country alone
Amid the panic, government officials in Colombo said the country's death toll had risen above 24,000. The Indian government said that 13,268 people were dead or feared dead across the country. In a statement, it said 7,330 were confirmed dead and another 5,900 were missing and presumed dead. All the presumed dead are in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, where rescuers have yet to reach isolated areas
Thailand's official death toll stands at 2,404 - including 713 foreigners - but following a visit to the southern province of Phang Nga, the country's interior minister, Bhokin Balakula, said today that more than 3,500 bodies had been found in that region alone.
Nationals of more than 40 countries were on holiday in six provinces of southern Thailand when disaster struck. They include some 1,500 Swedes, 200 Finns, 200 Danes and hundreds of Norwegians, according to reports from Scandinavian capitals.

Family Tell Of Frantic Bid To Contact Missing Man

When travelling, we usually get aquaintanances very fast, especially if we travel alone. Most of these new "friendships" won't last long and this should be considered as a completely normal thing. But sometimes you get much more attached with someone whom you didn't know a month ago. It depends on what both of you went trough together, i guess.
When tsunami hit Patong beach on Phuket, i was pretty worried about this dude, William Kerr, whom i met in Thailand and who reported today for this blog in an article Patong aftermath by William Kerr. Luckily he's safe and kicking. He also has got relatives. This is their tsunami related story.

William Kerr, 23, from Lurgan, was spending Christmas in the Thai resort of Patong - one of the areas consumed by massive torrents of water early on Sunday morning.
His mother and two sisters have been frantically trying to contact him since they heard about the disaster, but last night, over 36 hours later, they still had no word.
"We rang his mobile the minute we heard, but it keeps going onto a network messaging service," William's sister, Michelle, told the News Letter.

Thank you for staying safe and thank you for the Patong beach story, Willy.

More photos from Phuket

This boy was pulled out of the water just seconds after taking this photo.


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Patong beach disaster in 67 photos

Death toll could reach 100,000

The official death toll in Indonesia stood at more than 45,000 last night. Across the region it had reached 77,000. But this figure is expected to continue to rise as information comes in from areas which have been cut off, such as India's Andaman and Nicobar islands.

Peter Rees, operations support chief for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said: "I would not be surprised if we are over 100,000 dead." By Guardian Unlimited.

Washington Post's best photos in 2004

Where Are All the Dead Animals?

Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned - the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.
"The strange thing is we haven't recorded any dead animals," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of the national Wildlife Department, told Reuters Wednesday.
"No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit," he added. "I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening."

Backyard disaster bunker

Jim Leftwich writes about US Bunkers, which manufactures a nice little pod to cozy up in when the peak oil crisis-induced food, water, and energy riots commence. Load it up with plenty of guns, ammos, water, food, and antibiotics and ride out the catastrophe. Don't open the door until the population drops by 90 percent!

The honda humanoid robot ASIMO

Take a look at this robot running at 3km/h. It reminds me on an old man trying to get into the toilet as soon as possible.

A collection of sophisticated photos

The primary mission of PBase.com is to be the best photo sharing and photo hosting web site.

Naoto Hattori

Very weard art by Naoto Hattori,

Fixing Mom's Computer

Went home for the holidays this week, and of course, the annual fix-Mom's-computer event. This year things on my mother-in-law's Windows 98 PC were especially bad; it could've been used as a software showcase of the latest and greatest in malware.

For future reference, here's a laundry list of steps I took to get Mom's computer working and secured from evil software.

Death toll near 70.000

The disaster has left more than 32,000 dead in Indonesia. Emergency workers who reached the northern tip of Sumatra, closest to the quake epicentre, found 3,400 bodies in a single town, Meulaboh.
On the south coast of Sri Lanka, which has reported 22,000 dead and around 1.5 million homeless, observers said there was still no sign of government aid where whole fishing villages had been wiped out.



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While the official death toll stood at 1,657, police said that more than 1,500 bodies had been found in one district alone - the home to the hardest-hit Khao Lak resort area - and that the total death toll there could reach 3,000. The government said 4,086 Thais and foreigners were missing. This included around 1,500 Swedes, 200 Finns, 200 Danes and hundreds of Norwegians, according to reports from Scandinavian capitals.
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An estimated 7,000 people have been confirmed or presumed killed in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. By Guardian Unlimited.

Is our Thai soccer team still complete?

Another photo of my soccer team from Patong beach in Phuket, Thailand.


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Is our soccer team still complete?

I spent a month this year at Patong beach, Phuket where i met these guys. We played soccer on a daily basis and had a lot of fun. They also invited me to help them playing in a Phuket soccer league. I really hope, that all of them went trough a disaster safely and that our team is still complete and ready for a game.

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Tsunami toll nears 30,000

Officials in Sri Lanka said today that nearly 19,000 people had died, and estimated that the toll in that country alone could rise to 25,000. More than 6,000 people were killed in Indonesia, more than 4,000 in India and more than 1,000 in Thailand.It was the deadliest known tsunami since the one caused by the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, also located off Sumatra, which killed an estimated 36,000 people. Officials in Thailand and Indonesia conceded that immediate public warnings of the waves could have saved lives. The only known warning issued by Thai authorities reached resort operators when it was too late. The waves hit Sri Lanka and India more than two hours later. But governments insisted they couldn't have known the true danger because there is no international system in place to track tsunamis in the Indian Ocean, and they could not afford the sophisticated equipment to build one.

25 years of professional cheating in casinos

I spent 14 years in casino industry working as a croupier - dealer at the French and American roulette. Richard Marcus is a man from the other side of the table. He has got a blog where he provides all kinds of informations from the casino underground world. Professional casino cheater's thoughts on casinos, gambling and updates from currently working, never-caught, cheaters...


Upon arriving in Las Vegas, in my early twenties, I supported myself solely through legitimate gambling. However, I soon found myself broke and homeless, living under a highway overpass. I eventually sought gainful employment in the only industry I had knowledge of, becoming a Blackjack and Baccarat dealer. Armed with experience on both sides of the tables, my mentor to be, Joe Classon taught the ways of a professional casino cheater. Although retired, I keep up on the various cons and scams that law enforcement is largely unnable to adequately police.

He also wrote a book about cheating in casinos, however i wouldn't recommend it to you as a good reading.

Windows of the gorgeous Vienna "Ratthaus" (town hall)  

Me, myself and i 

Lisa and me 

Pics from Vienna

A few days ago i wrote a couple of sentences about my visit to Vienna where i met a Libra Radio listener Lisa Freund. She sent me a few photos afterwards and now i've been experimenting this new software which is capable of sending photos from my computer directly into this blog! It is crazy what these new things can do. I am using Picasa, an automated digital photo organizer and Hello from Picasa for sending pics directly into this blog. You should give a try to this software, it rocks!


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Zoom through an hypnotic series of paintings

This is crazy! This Flash app allows you to zoom through a long series of illustrations, looping one after the next. The effect is hypnotic and genuinely beautiful, like disappearing into a series of paintings.

Your Dominant Intelligence?

Here's another way of testing your intelligence.

Spherical paintings

The world of artist Dick Termes is a world of spheres—big spheres, little spheres, transparent spheres, and, most of all, painted spheres.

Based in Spearfish, S.D., Termes has been painting on spheres for more than 30 years. His intriguing creations embody the notion of capturing complete worlds—top, bottom, and all around—on a spherical canvas

Deanne Cheuk's Mushroom Girls

Deanne Cheuk is a NYC-based fashion designer and illustrator, art director for Tokion magazine, and publisher of her own tiny 'zine called Neomu ("No words, no advertising, just inspirational images, photographs, and graphics"). Cheuk's own paintings and drawings from her Mushroom Girls Virus series are spectacular. I can't wait for her forthcoming monograph

Thailand - 866 deaths

Latest statistics for deaths and injury by province. From top to bottom: Phuket, Krabi, Phangnga, Satun, Ranong, Trang, and totals. The middle column is deaths and the right-side column is injured (iTV).




Thai paradises lost to nature's fury

Published on Dec 27 , 2004 (The Nation, Bankgkok)

Just a day before the tidal waves they were the epitome of earthly paradise, now they are scenes of hell.

A postcard-perfect island with stunning scenery, pristine beaches, and azure waters, Koh Phi Phi is a scene of death and devastation. Sunday’s seismic tidal waves killed more than 143 people and swept away all but two buildings on the island.

Krabi’s scenic shorelines, famed for their bizarre limestone rock-formations, sustained massive damage and it may well take months to clean up all the debris. Some 68 people were killed and many more are still missing.

The popular Ao Nang Beach came in for an especially severe battering.

“Phi Phi is a total wreck,” lamented Mitchai Anansakul, head of the Nopparat Thara Marine Park. “Almost every building on the island collapsed under the 10-metre wall of water.”

Only two large hotel buildings, the Phi Phi Cabana and the Phi Phi Hotel, were left standing, but even they suffered heavy damage and will need structural inspection before they can be reopened, Mitchai added.

Rescuers, who started at 6am, were working around the clock to evacuate survivors and injured victims to the mainland. “By late afternoon some 500 to 600 survivors, including many wounded, were still stranded on the island,” Lt-Colonel Prasertsri Kulna, an inspector at Marine Police Division 5, said yesterday.

Killer tsunami: Toll rises to 24,000

In India, Tamil Nadu is one of the worst affected states where 3,000 people are reported dead. In Andaman & Nicobar Islands as well, 3,000 people have been killed.

In Pondicherry, 337 people have died and hundreds of fishermen are still missing. 97 casualties have been reported from Andhra Pradesh, while the toll in Kerala has touched 150.
Latest figures indicate that over 12,000 people were killed in Sri Lanka alone with over 80 lakh people rendered homeless.
In Indonesia too, the situation is grim. Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in the country, with the Aceh region in northern Indonesia being the worst-hit.
In Thailand nearly 840 people, including an Indian, were killed mostly in the holiday resort city of Phuket. Resort island Penang and the Patong beachside too bore the brunt of the killer waves.

Tsunami death toll rises to 23,500

The death toll from the southern Asia earthquake rose dramatically today, with some reports estimating that 23,500 people died in Sunday's disastrous tidal wave.

Officials in Sri Lanka announced this morning that the death toll in the country had increased by 5,000 to 11,000.

Tempest of rage shakes Sikh temple

Jagdeesh Singh is a Sikh, but he is regularly called a 'Paki bin Laden'. He has even been beaten up in the street. Now he feels that a Birmingham theatre has joined in the abuse. Anushka Asthana talks to an angry community. By Guardian Unlimited.

Thailand - 198 killed, 2,000 injured

O.marian:
198 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured, with scores missing in southern Thai resorts after a major earthquake hit Southeast Asia on Sunday, causing tidal waves and flooding, a government disaster centre said.
Phang nga: 64 deaths, Phuket 69, Krabi 35, Ranong 25, Trang 5
PHUKET: Swedish tourist Kjell Sköld, of Gothenburg, has described how the rising waters of the wave trapped him, his wife, Bibi, and their young children in their bungalow at Andaman Bay Resort, at Bang Tao. Read the story

The owner of two resorts on Phi Phi island (photo on the right side) - where the Hollywood blockbuster "The Beach", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was filmed - said that 200 of his bungalows were swept out to sea, along with some of his employees and customers. "I am afraid that there will be a high figure of foreigners missing in the sea, and also my staff," said Chan Marongtaechar, who was in the Thai capital of Bangkok at the time. He estimated that 700 people could have been on the beach. Officials said more than 600 tourists and locals were being evacuated by air and sea from the island.

Khum Bhumi Jensen, the son of Prince Ubolrattana and the grandson of His Majesty the King, is among many people still unaccounted for, according to a radio message broadcast from Phuket

Tsunami kills thousands

O.marian: The most powerful earthquake in 40 years triggered massive tidal waves that hit coastlines across Asia today, killing approximately 3,400 people in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. By Guardian Unlimited


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Children of the Kalash valley

O.marian Sooner or later i'll have to jump on a plane to Pakistan and take a closer look at this wonder i've been dreaming of for many years now, a non muslim Kalasha tribe. People who were there keep describing it as a Garden of Eden.
From what we are told, the Kalasha believe the earth is heaven, for the gods have given them everything they need, food, shelter, trees, water and life. Their religion is based on nature and the major god is Koda (Sajigor). Major festivals occur after harvests and mid winter which involve religious rituals, music, dancing and lots of merrymaking. Men stand around telling stories and sharing wine while the women dance in festive costume. Special dance halls exist for such occasions, dark and eerie they are decorated with carved pillars & doors and goat like figures at the entrances. Here the Greek god Pan is alive and worshipped.
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The Mexicans of Yugoslavia

O.marian: In winter 1987 i spent two weeks in Abu Ghraib, Iraq working there for a Slovenian food producing company. I was invited to one of those famous homesick-heavy-drinking birthday partys thrown by Yugoslav workers. There was a guy at that party who took a guitar and microphone and gave us a real concert. All the songs were Mexican style songs with serbocroatian lyrics. There was around 30 souls who got touched with the music and singing, so we all started to sing with the guy. This was the music from our homeland and we were all pretty much homesick.
Slovenian writer Miha Mazzini launched a website with photos and music from our "Mexican" times in ex Yugoslavia. Very hilarious website!
In 1948, the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito (May 7, 1892 - May 4, 1980) broke up with the Soviet leader Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (Dec. 21, 1879 - March 5, 1953) and Yugoslavia was on the brink of war with the Soviet Union. There were tanks on both sides of the border and Tito's regime imprisoned many Soviet sympathizers (real or just suspected). Russian films were suddenly not so popular anymore.
Yugoslav authorities had to look somewhere else for film entertainment. They found a suitable country in Mexico: it was far away, the chances of Mexican tanks appearing on Yugoslav borders were slight and, best of all, in Mexican films they always talked about
revolution in the highest terms. How could an average moviegoer know that it was not the Yugoslav revolution?

Emilio Fernández's Un Día de vida (1950) became so immensely popular that the old people in the former republics of Yugoslavia even today regard it as surely one of the most well known films in the world ever made although in truth it is probably unknown in every other country, even Mexican web pages don't mention it much. The Mexican influence spread to all of the popular culture: fake Mexican bands were forming and their records still can be found at the flea markets nowadays.
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Red Panda

O.marian: I've been walking on this planet for a pretty long time now, i read a lot, i watch Discovery channel, Animal planet and National Geographic, i was in Sichuan province in China which is famous of it's pandas, however i discovered just a few minutes ago that i share this planet also with a Red Panda. Nice little creatures they are. Oh, and this red panda located in Vienna is only 3 hours from my home.
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Bad Type

O.marian: Nice work from a graphic designer who loves topography.
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Gingerbread Kama Sutra

O.marian: Recipes for the porn cookies, if you think you might need one


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2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

O.marian Based on billions of searches conducted by Google users around the world, the 2004 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year's major events and trends.

The most popular Queries:

1. britney spears
2. paris hilton
3. christina aguilera
4. pamela anderson
5. chat
6. games
7. carmen electra
8. orlando bloom
9. harry potter
10. mp3
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Huge parachute designed to save crashing planes

O.marian Canadian rancher Albert Kolk's small plane banked uncontrollably in darkness over the Monashee mountains, then began spiraling toward earth. "Seat belts!" he barked to his teenage grandson and two young friends. Then he reached for a red lever in the cockpit. Report by CNN.com
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Bird story

O.marian Here's an interesting bird story covered with photos: Change is in the air!

Bill owns a company that manufactures and installs car wash systems... Now understand that these are a complete system including the money changer and money taking machines.
The problem started when the new owner complained to Bill that he was loosing significant amounts of money from his coin machines each week.
Take a look and see who the thief was. I'd call this as an addiction

Bird Story

Backyard mecha

marian ornik: The 26-year-old Carlos Owens is an Anchorage-area steelworker by day. From CNET Report:
In his own time, he's hoping to become the creator of a true "mecha"--not a robot, exactly, but a gigantic exoskeleton that can transform its wearer's motions into eight-foot strides and the devastating sweep of a steel fist.
"This is a concept that's been around for a long time," Owens said in a telephone interview. "But I'm not going to wait for the other guy to come out and make it when I've got the capability to do it myself."
Sigourney Weaver's character in "Aliens" fights wearing something a little like what Owens is trying to build, and powered armor made a prominent appearance in last year's "Matrix Revolutions."
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Carlos Owens

Mayor of Bogota uses mimes for public behavior control

O.marian: A mathematician and philosopher Antanas Mockus used many innovative strategies during his time of being a mayor of Bogota, Colombia. He turned Bogotá into a social experiment just as the city was choked with violence, lawless traffic, corruption, and gangs of street children who mugged and stole. He "invented" mimes to improve both traffic and citizens' behavior. Initially 20 professional mimes shadowed pedestrians who didn't follow crossing rules: A pedestrian running across the road would be tracked by a mime who mocked his every move. Mimes also poked fun at reckless drivers. The program was so popular that another 400 people were trained as mimes. But there is more!
He was also successful in reduction of homicides from 80 per 100,000 inhabitants in 1993 to 22 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2003 and he sees this as a major achievement, noting also that traffic fatalities dropped by more than half in the same time period, from an average of 1,300 per year to about 600. Contributing to this success was the mayor's inspired decision to paint stars on the spots where pedestrians (1,500 of them) had been killed in traffic accidents.
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Gypsy brass madness festival in Gucha, Serbia

O.marian:
Ok, you missed the last one, however there'll be another occasion next year. 300.000 visitors from all over the world. The village of Gucha in the Dragacevo district, peaceful and colorful part of western Serbia , has gained world fame owing to its Assembly of Trumpet Players, the largest trumpet event on the planet.
BTW, you'll get hit by the wild music when you get to the site. Scroll down a little bit, find a button and stop it. This is my only complaint to this website.


"I didn't know you could play trumpet that way"
Miles Davis, a Guca Festival visitor.

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WSJ Portraits

O.marian:Portraits that appear in the Wall Street Journal are drawn in a "stippled" style. Here's the Web site of one of those artists:

Loli Novak

Deladap - Gypsy groove . A " must have" for every modern dancefloor Dj

O.marian: I just got a cd of Deladap, sent to me by an addicted and devoted Libra Radio listener Lisa Freund who originates from Vienna, Austria but has been living for more than a decade in Paris, France. A few days ago we met each other in gorgeously decorated pre-christmas Vienna, had some walking, babbling, brilliant food and wine. Then i went back to Slovenia and she went to see a Deladap live concert in Vienna! But she heard about this concert just minutes after i jumped on the train. So, i am not in a position of developing a wounded vanity :)

Deladap - A new facet of Jazz – Nu-Roma
For the last two years, Prague born producer Stani Vana developed his concept of cultural communication. Together with singer Melinda Stoika and arranger Tibor Barkoczy – both born in Budapest, Hungary – he didn not only cross borders but even centuries as they created their own facet of Jazz which you may call “Nu-Roma” or “Nu-Gipsy” or simply Dela Dap.

"very exotic and loungy and yet modern enough for the dancefloor; can't wait to drop it on the radioshow" Velanche Stewart (Urban Landscapes Radioshow, San Francisco)
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Opus Dei

O.marian: Everything you need to know about the conservative Catholic organisation
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Scared of Santa

O.marian: Nothing says Happy Holidays like a photo of sweet little toddlers screaming at Santa. The first 25 photos in this gallery are from the Chicago Tribune's "Scared of Santa" contest in 2003. All the rest of the photos were submitted by SouthFlorida.com readers this year.

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Bird's Eye View

O.marian This should be amazing for everyone. Fly with Tilly, the golden eagle equipped with miniature cameras on his back.

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Millions taken in Belfast bank raid

A gang has stolen at least £20m from a bank in Belfast in one of Britain's biggest ever heists, comparable in scale to the Brinks Mat raid and the great train robbery.
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Browse happy

Browsing with Internet explorer can be a nightmare.There are other options too.
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Omar Faruk Tekbilek

One of the musicians played on Libra Radio is Omar Faruk Tekbilek. The very first cd donated by a musician to Libra Radio came from Omar Faruk. What is amazing is that we have had only four available listeners slots at that time! Thank you, Omar Faruk Tekbilek. Take a quick journey to his site.


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Play axed after Sikh protests

The Birmingham theatre attacked this weekend in a violent protest by Sikhs today announced it was ending the run of a play that depicts murder and rape in a Sikh temple
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NASA to Smack a Comet

NASA is on a collision course with a comet, and scientists say they can't wait to see what happens.
The collision, which is to take place between a projectile fired from the space agency's Deep Impact spacecraft and a 4-mile-wide comet known as Tempel 1, is scheduled for July 4, 2005.
By Amit Asaravala.
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Female Viagra? Don't Count on It

In the world of sexual research, some experts like to compare men to a light switch: It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to turn them on. Women, by contrast, supposedly have as many gears and dials as the control panel of an airplane, all needing to be synchronized before liftoff.

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The Bush family christmas letter

Howdy friends! What a year! We spent most of 2004 wondering if we might have to move out of our lovely second home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC. The landlords could not seem to make up their minds whether we should stay. For a while they were thinking about kicking us out and letting in some dreadful man with a booming voice and suspiciously big hair, along with his unhinged foreign wife. He kept banging on about
what a hero he had been in Vietnam and saying mean things about George’s brave and dangerous years in the Texas Air National Guard. By Times Online
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Lego thriller

This is Michael Jackson's Thriller video using simple Legos. Many hours of patient work behind it.
Due to our strong personal convictions, we wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult.
Michael Jackson
Philipp Lents
Miriam Lents
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