--Wrodl Crisis and Epidemic...2009--

Swine flu pandemic imminent
The WHO has raised its pandemic alert level as Mexico is shut down for five days and new suspected cases of swine flu have been announced in Peru and Switzerland. Follow the latest updates and reactions to the spread of the virus

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4.06am: Egyptian health ministers said today that the cull of 250,000 pigs was not in fact an anti-flu measure, but a more general santitation effort.
An Egyptian health ministry official tells AFP:
The authorities took advantage of the situation to resolve the question of disorderly pig rearing in Egypt.

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3.41am: The Guardian's Simon Tisdall writes that the media's fixation on the swine flu has detracted from attention to the widespread misery and violence in other parts of the world:
The sudden surge in first world swine fever has also overshadowed the plight of millions in the Horn of Africa, principally in Somalia where a reconfigured government is struggling to survive. Random violence, suicide attacks, kidnapping and armed robbery are daily problems facing the 3 million people currently dependent on food aid. Over 1 million Somalis are displaced, many living in insanitary tent cities. For them, flu is not a big issue.

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3.33am: The talk here in Washington is of 6 probable swine flu cases in Maryland, just next door. The six people represent the first possible cases of swine flu to reach the Washington region.

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3.32am: Three more people in the UK have been diagnosed with swine flu, the Department of Health has announced.
A total of eight people in Britain have now been confirmed with the disease.
A departmental spokesman said: "There have been three more confirmed cases of swine flu in the UK - two in London and one in the North East.
"There are now eight confirmed cases in the UK - six in England, and two in Scotland.
"The preparations we have in place and are continuing to make will help to ensure we respond well in the event of a pandemic."

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3.28am: Daniel Nasaw here in Washington, taking over. Thanks again Matthew and Haroon.

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2.56pm: A diplomatic row is brewing between Germany and Spain after the German health minister, Ulla Schmidt, suggested that people should not go to the Spanish Grand Prix.
"Everyone understands that there cannot be a major gathering of 70,000 people, if thousands of them could become infected," Schmidt told the Swiss publication Motorsport Aktuell, according to Crashnet.
The Guardian's Madrid correspondent, Giles Tremlett, says the Spanish government is fuming.

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2.39pm: Conspiracy theories about swine flu are spreading faster than the virus. "It's bioterrorism attack" according to a posting on Prison Planet, home of shock-jock and conspiracy theory magnet Alex Jones. Wizbang Blue rounds up some of the other theories including the Mexican drug cartel angle and the al-Qaida connection.

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2.25pm: Someone in a student house in Newcastle is suspected of catching swine flu, according to Chronicle Live, citing the Newcastle University. The World Bank said one of its Washington employees has been preliminarily diagnosed with the virus.

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2.05pm: Simon Jenkins has written a new piece condemning swine flu media hysteria.
The only disease that needs stamping out is mad journalism. At a time like this the media should shut up, report facts and tell people what they can do, not create statistically inflated hypotheticals and fantastical scenarios.

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1.20pm: US vice president, Joe Biden, has cautioned against air travel and underground trains, because swine flu can spread in "confined spaces", according to Politico.com.

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1.01pm: Iain and Dawn Askham, the first Britons confirmed with swine flu have been released from hospital. They doing "very well", Scotland First Minister Alex Salmond said.

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12.50pm: "It would be hilarious, were it not so deadly serious," a doctor writes. GP Ann Robinson shares some of the questions she has been asked in the last week, on Comment is Free. They include: "Shall I cancel my cruise to Florida?" and "I'm fine but can I have a prescription for Tamiflu – just in case?"
Dr Robinson will be live on line at 4pm today to answer more questions.

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12.45pm: Swine flu has gone viral in the internet sense. Here are two of the latest images doing the rounds.

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12.22pm: The use of antiviral drugs could result in the development of a resistant strain, a flu researcher has claimed.
"We can't continue to use single antiviral drugs . . . The virus will win the game," Robert Webster of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis told a conference according to Med Page Today. Is this more yet scaremongering or should we be worried?

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11.49am: The Guardian's political commentator Michael White reflects on the Daily Mail relegating swine flu to page 10.
"Everyone should stop freaking out" says mpanighetti from San Mateo, in California.

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11.38am: CNN's medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta, recommends the elbow bump as a new form of greeting. "It's not as cool as the fist bump, but safer. I think it will catch on," he says.

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11.07am:Mark Honigsbaum, author of a history of 1918 Flu, reckons we should stay calm and carry on and follow simple hygiene advise that was issued in 1918.
Writing on Comment is Free, he complains of a "media-induced collective dread" about swine flu.
Talking of which, Holland has just confirmed its first case of the virus.

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10.41am: Jose Antonio Herrera, who works as a clown in Mexico City wants to know if he qualifies for a swine flu victim support fund as the park he works in has been closed, according to the latest from blogger Daniel Hernandez.
I'd like to know if, as a clown of the Bosque de Chapultepec, I will be helped by the support program for those affected by the influenza. Since I was unjustly fired from my job as a mailman, I work [at the park] and that's how I support my family. Now that it's closed, how will I feed them? Or is the fund only for business owners who do have money and were affected by the closure of their bars or restaurants? Or will I have to look to get sick to be able to support my family? Where do I have to go to get help?

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10.35am: The chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, said he was "concerned but not alarmed" after the World Health Organisation raised its swine flu global epidemic threat level.
Swine flu has now affected over 30 countries, according to the Guardian's country by country guide to swine flu.

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10.13am: Dr Sarah Harrison, consultant in public health for Torbay Care Trust, has provided an update on the health of the 12-year-old girl who contracted the virus on a trip to Mexico. "She is suffering from flu, so she's not feeling very well, but she is recovering."
The mayor of Torbay, Nick Bye, said the resort is still open for business. "I don't want to be the mayor in Jaws," he said after discussing the attractions of "the bay".
Harrison said she could not say how many people were being tested in Devon - it is more like a dozen than hundreds, she said. She revealed that 340 courses of the antiviral Tamiflu had been given out.
Jane English, principal of Paignton College which the affected girl attends, said she had not been given the drug because she was not deemed to be at risk. She said she was "confident" that all the people the pupil had been in contact with have been traced.

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9.54am: Cobra, the government's emergency committee, is to meet at 11am today to discuss swine flu. EU health ministers will also hold emergency talks today in Luxembourg to coordinate national efforts in preventing the spread of the virus.

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9.17am: Every UK household has been sent an 11-page leaflet about swine flu. It says:
If swine flu spreads, you need to keep informed so that you know what else you can do to protect yourself and your family. As the situation changes, you should keep up to date by watching TV, listening to the radio, checking the internet and looking out for announcements in the press.
The Department of Health TV advert has also been released. "Catch it. Bin it. Kill it." features a man sneezing in a lift.

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8.59am: The government has set up a swine flu information line. You can call it on 0800 151 3513 or listen here.
It says: "Because it [swine flu] is a new virus no one will have immunity to it and everyone could be at risk of catching it. This includes healthy adults."

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8.21am: Dr Ben Goldacre, of Bad Science fame, says we are right to worry about swine flu, but there is a crisis in confidence in how the media is covering the story.
Not only have the public lost all faith in the media; not only do so many people assume, now, that they are being misled; but more than that, the media themselves have lost all confidence in their own ability to give us the facts.

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~http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/apr/30/swine-flu

--Workplace Politics Is Not a Game...--

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~http://www.chacocanyon.com/pointlookout/010307.shtml

--Human Shadowing...--

Why does it feel like humanity is sinking further into misery, cruelty and oppression everyday?
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Why have doublethink and newspeak, name calling and blame, become the preferred methods of human interaction in personal and political life? Why have simplistic versions of who’s right and who’s wrong, of who’s God and who isn’t, only made the world we live in less safe?
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Only the shadow knows.......
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~http://humanshadowtalk.com/

--Phnom Penh Today..and future--

--Cambodia Peace Corps--

--One More Dose-d--

--WORLD'S FIRST TRILLIONAIRE?--

Who was the world's first trillionaire?
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The answer is no one.....yet!
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Bill Gates reached the apex of his net worth in 1999 topping the $100 billion mark, but has since slipped to about $50 billion.
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In 1999, calculating the growth rate of his holdings he was expected to reach one trillion dollars in 2004 or 2005. Obviously it did not happen, but he is still by far the closest.
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Here are some facts about a trillion dollars:

• If you were to spend a million dollars a day it would take you 2,737.8 years to spend it assuming you made no interest.
• At 5% interest you'd earn about $136,986,301.00 per day, $5,707,762.00 per hour, $95,129.00 per minute or $1,585 per second.
• According to Forbes in 2005 the 691 billionaires in the world are worth $2.2 trillion combined.
• On October 18 2005 the American National Debt surpassed $8 trillion.

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~http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/first72.html

--Everyone has a DREAM...--

--4.1 Trillion..4,100,000,000,000.00 to save the World?--

Trillion may mean:

Numbers

Either of the two numbers (see long and short scales for more detail):

• 1,000,000,000,000 (one million million; 1012; SI prefix: tera-) - for all short scale countries - increasingly common meaning in English language usage.
• 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one million million million; 1018; SI prefix: exa-) - for all long scale countries - increasingly rare meaning in English language usage but frequent in many other languages.

~http://www.answers.com/topic/trillion

~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion

~http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm

--SAVE THREE LIVES for $5.00--

--ANZAC DAY 2009--

--和气求财...--

--A New Friend..KIKI--

--AZ Alkmaar win Dutch championship 2008-09--

AZ Alkmaar have won the 2008-09 Dutch Championship as their only remaining rivals, Ajax, crashed to a 6-2 defeat at previous champions PSV Eindhoven.
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Ajax needed a win to postpone AZ’s championship party but Marco van Basten’s men never stood a chance in Eindhoven. Edison Mendez, Ibrahim Affelay and Nordin Amrabat gave the hosts a very comfortable lead in the first half, and Luis Suarez’ goal for 3-1 just before the break could not threaten PSV’s advantage.
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In the second half, PSV continued their full domination with goals from Jason Culina and Balazs Dzsudzsak. Miralem Sulejmani made it 5-2 on 76 minutes. PSV had the final say though as substitute Otman Bakkal netted for 6-2 in added time.
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~http://www.soccernews.com/az-alkmaar-win-dutch-championship-as-psv-crush-ajax/18236/

--Earth Day 2009--

Earth Day -- April 22 -- each year marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.

Among other things, 1970 in the United States brought with it the Kent State shootings, the advent of fiber optics, "Bridge Over Troubled Water," Apollo 13, the Beatles' last album, the death of Jimi Hendrix, the birth of Mariah Carey, and the meltdown of fuel rods in the Savannah River nuclear plant near Aiken, South Carolina -- an incident not acknowledged for 18 years.

It was into such a world that the very first Earth Day was born.

Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed the first nationwide environmental protest "to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda. " "It was a gamble," he recalls, "but it worked."

At the time, Americans were slurping leaded gas through massive V8 sedans. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. Environment was a word that appeared more often in spelling bees than on the evening news.

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~http://www.earthday.net/

~http://www.earthday.net/node/77

~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

~http://earthday.gov/

~http://www.alexearthday.org/

--Earth Day - 22nd April 2009--

Earth Day is celebrated April 22 every single year, both held annually during spring in the northern hemisphere, and autumn in the southern hemisphere. These are intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. The United Nations celebrates an Earth Day each year on the March equinox, a tradition which was founded by peace activist John McConnell in 1969.
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A second Earth Day, which was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in in 1970, is celebrated in many countries each year on April 22.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

--Central Market Phnom Penh--Phsar Thom Thmei--

Phsar Thom Thmei market was built in the shape of a dome in 1937 and is the capital's main shopping centre.

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Double-digit economic growth rates in recent years have triggered an economic boom, with new hotels, restaurants, bars, and residential buildings springing up around the city. Phnom Penh's wealth of historical and cultural sites makes it a very popular tourist destination.

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Nowadays, the market is a tourist hot spot. The four wings of the yellow coloured Phsar Thom Thmei are teeming with numerous stalls selling gold and silver jewellery, antique coins, clothing, clocks, flowers, food, fabrics and shoes.

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With the economic growth seen since the 1990s, new shops have opened as well as western-style malls such as Sorya Shopping Center and the new Sovanna Shopping Center.

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Two international franchises have also opened up in Phnom Penh. Dairy Queen has already opened up inside Phnom Penh International Airport and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has opened up a restaurant on Monivong Boulevard and plans to open more soon. The same company that opened up KFC in Cambodia has now obtained franchise rights to open Pizza Hut in the country.

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Penh

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~http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Asia/Cambodia/Phnom_Penh-1194372/Things_To_Do-Phnom_Penh-Central_Market_Psah_Thmay-R-1.html

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~http://www.asiaexplorers.com/cambodia/phnom_penh_central_market.htm

--X-Men Origins--Wolverine--

James Logan aka Wolverine and his brother Victor Creed (who will later become Sabretooth) run away together as children in the mid 1850's after Logan kills their biological father who had murdered Logan's adoptive father. After serving together in many wars they are recruited by William Stryker to serve in a special unit made up of mutants. After wiping out an African villiage, Logan quits the unit and goes off to live a life of peace in the Canadian Rockies with his girlfriend later to be known as the Silver Fox.

Six years pass for the both of them until Stryker shows up and asks Logan to come back and be a part of a new Weapon X project. Logan refuses but Creed shows up and murders Logan's girlfriend leaving him wanting revenge against his brother. Logan accepts Strykers offer to be infused with Adamantium so that he can be indestructable and go after his revenge but is double crossed by Stryker and hears him give the order to wipe his memories. Escaping before this can happen, he goes searching for Creed killing anyone who gets in his way.

~http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/

~http://www.x-menorigins.com/

--10,000-year-old mammoth found in Siberia--2007--

4-foot gray-and-brown baby could help in climate change studies

updated 8:40 a.m. ET July 12, 2007

MOSCOW - The well-preserved carcass of a 10,000-year-old baby mammoth has been unearthed in the northern Siberian permafrost, a discovery scientists said could help in climate change studies.

The 4-foot gray-and-brown carcass, discovered in May by a reindeer herder in the Yamal-Nenets region, has its trunk and eyes virtually intact and even some fur remaining, said Alexei Tikhonov, deputy director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Zoological Institute.
The animal’s tail and ear were apparently bitten off, he said.

“The mammoth is an animal that you look at, and you see that there is an entire epoch behind it, a huge time period when climate was changing,” he said in comments broadcast last week.
“And of course when we talk about climate change, we must use the knowledge that we will get from them (mammoths).”

Scientists believe mammoths lived from 4.8 million years ago to around 4,000 years ago. Studies suggest climate change or overkill by human hunters as possible reasons leading to their extinction.

Tikhonov said the mammoth would be sent to an institute in Japan for further study.

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~http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19725653/

~http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070711-mammoth-picture.html

~http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288975,00.html

~http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6284214.stm

~http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-07-11-baby-mammoth-carcass_N.htm

--DENIAL--

Denial is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.

The subject may deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether (simple denial), admit the fact but deny its seriousness (minimisation) or admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility (transference).

The concept of denial is particularly important to the study of addiction. The theory of denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. She classified denial as a mechanism of the immature mind, because it conflicts with the ability to learn from and cope with reality.

Where denial occurs in mature minds, it is most often associated with death, dying and rape. More recent research has significantly expanded the scope and utility of the concept. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross used denial as the first of five stages in the psychology of a dying patient, and the idea has been extended to include the reactions of survivors to news of a death.

Thus, when parents are informed of the death of a child, their first reaction is often of the form,
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"No! You must have the wrong house, you can't mean our child!"

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial
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~http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/denial
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~http://www.minddisorders.com/Del-Fi/Denial.html

--HUMMER--LIKE NOTHING ELSE--

HUMMER -- "LIKE NOTHING ELSE"

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~http://www.hummer.com/#/AMERICAS/us/en-us/

--Chicken a la Carte by Ferdinand Dimadura--

Hunger Facts: International

World Hunger and Poverty: How They Fit Together

• 963 million people across the world are hungry.
• Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds.
• In essence, hunger is the most extreme form of poverty, where individuals or families cannot afford to meet their most basic need for food.
• Hunger manifests itself in many ways other than starvation and famine. Most poor people who battle hunger deal with chronic undernourishment and vitamin or mineral deficiencies, which result in stunted growth, weakness and heightened susceptibility to illness.
• Countries in which a large portion of the population battles hunger daily are usually poor and often lack the social safety nets we enjoy, such as soup kitchens, food stamps, and job training programs. When a family that lives in a poor country cannot grow enough food or earn enough money to buy food, there is nowhere to turn for help.

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~http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html

--HAPPY BIRTHDAY...Sis--

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS

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A VERY WONDERFUL DEAR AND TALENTED FRIEND IS WHAT SHE IS.

SHE IS ALWAYS THINKING OF WAYS TO CHEER AND TO PLEASE;

THERE IS NOT A GIFT BIG ENOUGH OR GOOD ENOUGH THAT WE CAN SEND

TO CELEBRATE HOW MUCH SHE MEANS TO US, SHE IS MORE THAN JUST A FRIEND.

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SHE HAS THIS MARVELOUS WAY OF PUTTING DOWN IN VERSE, WHAT SHE FEELS, HOW BEAUTIFUL LIFE IS AND ABOUT HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS WHO MAKE IT REAL....

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sis.....

--My AH KONG--Grand Dad--

一双赤裸的手和脚

支撑着你的骨头

时常不忘

给自己打气加油.....

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~http://www.8dou.net/html/article_show_42196.shtml

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~http://www.douban.com/subject/1294434/

--Another Sick and Tired Sunday in Phnom Penh. Cambodia--

I’ve just woke up for a new day..
Do I have hopes?
Do I thinks that it’s gonna be a good day?
No.. No, I don’t…
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So why did I wake up?
I don’t know..
Isn’t it tedious?
I am sick and tired,
From always being sick and tired..
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The sun is shining..
Let the sunshine in..
But no..
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I can’t see it anyway…...
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But... Not Giving any hope to see it......

--Rain and Stormy Day... Phnom Penh. Cambodia--

The pine-trees bend to listen to the autumn wind as it mutters Something which sets the black poplars ashake with hysterical laughter; While slowly the house of day is closing its eastern shutters.

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Further down the valley the clustered tombstones recede, Winding about their dimness the mist's grey cerements, after The street lamps in the darkness have suddenly started to bleed.

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The leaves fly over the window and utter a word as they pass To the face that leans from the darkness, intent, with two dark-filled eyes That watch for ever earnestly from behind the window glass.

--'The Internet Symphony'-Global Mash Up--

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~http://www.youtube.com/user/symphony?gl=AU&hl=en-GB

--The 2010 Mustang--

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~http://www.fordvehicles.com/the2010mustang/

--Journey of the 2010 Mustang Reveal--

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~http://www.fordvehicles.com/the2010mustang/

--The 2010 Mustang Japan Drift--

~http://www.fordvehicles.com/the2010mustang/

--Mustang 2010 Commercial By Ford--

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~http://www.fordvehicles.com/the2010mustang/

--The Secret-Planet Earth-Eath Day 2009 22nd April 2009--

The Secret Team has created a gift for you.

This clip features our beautiful Planet Earth. As you experience this clip you will emit positive forces of energy across Planet Earth that will reach every single living thing on it. You will lift yourself, and as you lift yourself, you lift the entire world.

The magnificent music was composed and graciously gifted for this clip by composer Jo Blankenburg.

From The Secret to you, here is Planet Earth - our home.

~http://network.earthday.net/video/the-secret-planet-earth

~http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/05/21/the-secret-planet-earth/

--Liverpool Pays Tribute To Hillsborough Dead #02--

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~http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Hillsborough-Memorial-Service-At-Anfield-Liverpool-To-Mark-20th-Anniversary-Of-Fans-Deaths/Article/200904315261967?lpos=UK_News_Right_Promo_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15261967_Hillsborough_Memorial_Service_At_Anfield%2C_Liverpool%2C_To_Mark_20th_Anniversary_Of_Fans_Deaths___

--New Era Khmer New Year Song--

--India's Grand Election 2009--

THE grand electoral process for the Lok Sabha has begun on Thursday morning as 124 constituencies spread over 15 states and two Union Territories have begun casting their votes in the first phase of polls.

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Amid widespread apprehensions of terrorists trying to disrupt the election process, there has been unprecedented levels of security in all states where elections are on. Naxalites on the other hand have called for a boycott of the elections.

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Among those who are in the fray for the first round of polling, include Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, Praful Patel, Jaipal Reddy and Renuka Chowdhury. The first phase is very crucial and the toughest from the security point of view as many Naxal-hit constituencies in Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar along with parts of North-East and Jammu and Kashmir are going to polls.

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States going to polls include Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jammu and , Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Maghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, UP, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Lakshdweep.

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The other important candidates in fray in the first phase include senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former union minister Murli Manohar Joshi, Telangana Rashtra Samithi's (TRS) K Chandrasekhar Rao, actor Vijayasanthi, NTR's daughter D Purandeswari and former union minister B Dattatreya.

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While all 20 seats in Kerala, 11 in Chhattisgarh and two in Meghalaya would go to polls in a single phase on Wednesday, polling would be held in 13 out of 40 seats in Bihar, 16 out of 80 in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra 13 (48), Andhra Pradesh 22 (42), Jharkhand six (14), Orissa 10 (21), Assam three (14), Arunachal Pradesh two (two), Manipur one (two) and Jammu and Kashmir one (six).

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The lone seats in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Mizoram and Nagaland would also be covered.

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~http://www.indian-elections.com/latest-news/index.html

--God Of Gamblers 1989--

God of Gamblers (traditional Chinese: 賭神; simplified Chinese: 赌神; pinyin: Dǔshén; lit. God of Gambling) is a 1989 Hong Kong action comedy-drama film written and directed by Wong Jing, and featuring an ensemble cast.

~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_Gamblers

--Woman Explained by The Engineers--

--NO PARKING--

--Bayern Munich 1 - 1 Barcelona--

~http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/fixturesresults/round=15278/match=302806/report=rp.html

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~http://soccernet.espn.go.com/commentary?id=265553&cc=4716&league=UEFA.CHAMPIONS

--Chelsea 4 - 4 Liverpool--

~http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/fixturesresults/round=15278/match=302805/report=rp.html

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~http://soccernet.espn.go.com/commentary?id=265552&cc=4716&league=UEFA.CHAMPIONS

--Liverpool Pays Tribute To Hillsborough Dead--

7:36pm UK, Wednesday April 15, 2009
Thousands of people have joined the families of 96 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough tragedy to mark the 20th anniversary of their deaths.

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A memorial service was held at the club's home ground, Anfield, where a member of each victim's family received the Freedom of Liverpool.

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A two-minute silence was held at 3.06pm and the city's transport system came to a stop.
Afterwards the bells of the city's two cathedrals and its civic buildings rang out 96 times.
Hundreds of floral tributes, scarves and football shirts were laid outside the Hillsborough memorial and tied to the Shankly Gates in Anfield Road.

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The service was opened by the Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Rev James Jones, who read out a message of sympathy from the Queen.

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He told the crowd of 30,000: "Those we lost (are) always in our minds. Never a day passes without a thought of what their tomorrow might have been."
Kenny Dalglish, who was Liverpool's manager when the disaster took place, read from the Bible, Lamentations of Jeremiah.

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The second reading, from the Letter of St Paul to the Romans, was given by Margaret Aspinall, vice-chairwoman of the Hillsborough Families Support Group.

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Culture Secretary Andy Burnham was repeatedly booed and jeered when he addressed the crowd in a "last minute" addition to the order of service.

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Trevor Hicks, a former chairman of the Families Group, said: "If ever the Government needed proof of our determination to get justice for the 96, they just have to look around this stadium today."

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Liverpool players Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher then presented Freedom Scrolls to Mr Hicks and a representative of each of the families.

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The service ended with Gerry Marsden performing his hit single and famous Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone, as 96 balloons were released into the sky.

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It was at 3.06pm on April 15, 1989 that the FA Cup semi-final

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between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool was stopped as the crowd spilled onto the pitch.
Desperate fans climbed over safety fences, trying to escape the crush on an overcrowded terrace at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium.

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Sheffield marked the anniversary of the disaster quietly. After talks with the Liverpool families' organisations, it was decided not to hold a formal ceremony at the ground.

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The Leppings Lane end, where the fans died, was opened up to visitors, though, and a a two-minute silence was observed in Nottingham's Old Market Square.

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~http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Hillsborough-Memorial-Service-At-Anfield-Liverpool-To-Mark-20th-Anniversary-Of-Fans-Deaths/Article/200904315261967?lpos=UK_News_Right_Promo_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15261967_Hillsborough_Memorial_Service_At_Anfield%2C_Liverpool%2C_To_Mark_20th_Anniversary_Of_Fans_Deaths___

--ME on Khmer New Year 2009--

--On Khmer New Year Day 2009--

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From Bayern Munchen..
FC Bayern München coach Jürgen Klinsmann is confident there will be no repeat of the stage fright that has all but derailed his side's UEFA Champions League challenge when they face FC Barcelona in the second leg of their quarter-final tie on Tuesday.

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Dignified exit

A weakened Bayern lineup was brushed aside 4-0 at Camp Nou last week, slipping to their first defeat in this season's competition. Klinsmann's men now have to rewrite UEFA Champions League history to maintain ambitions of a fifth continental crown, and while the former Germany coach admitted that is an all but impossible task, he is determined to make a dignified exit.

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'Too much respect'

"It would be unrealistic to say we can go through, but we're going to do everything to win," he said. "In Barcelona, we gave them too much respect; some of our players were overwhelmed." The Bundesliga outfit have received a boost on that front with first-choice defenders Lucio (thigh) and Philipp Lahm (calf) available again after injury, although striker Miroslav Klose (ankle) remains sidelined. "We'll have a lot more stability and self-confidence," added the 44-year-old. "We want to play breathtaking football and bid an honourable farewell to the Champions League."

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Learning process

'Breathtaking' is an adjective which sits comfortably with Barcelona, who handed Bayern their record defeat in the competition in Catalonia. Klinsmann believes Josep Guardiola's side are "probably the best team in Europe at the moment", but hopes victory against the Blaugrana will be the catalyst for a successful end to Bayern's domestic campaign. "If we beat Barcelona, our Champions League season will have been positive," said Klinsmann, who saw his charges move up to second in the Bundesliga after Saturday's 4-0 defeat of Eintracht Frankfurt. "For us, it's very important to learn against a team like Barcelona. They showed us our limits, but it's also good to compare our team to theirs and see where we have to improve."

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'Good advantage'

The result of Barcelona's scintillating first-leg display is that Bayern have to better the exploits of RC Deportivo La Coruña, who overturned a 4-1 first-leg deficit to secure an improbable victory against AC Milan in their 2003/04 quarter-final tie. However, Guardiola suggested he will leave nothing to chance. "We have one foot in the semi-finals but we're taking Bayern very seriously," he said. "We don't have the right to think we're through just because we won the first leg. We have a good advantage, but anything can happen in sport."

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Henry doubt

French forward Thierry Henry missed Monday's training session with a high temperature and will be replaced by Aleksandr Hleb on the left-hand side of Barça's three-pronged front line should he fail to recover. With Rafael Márquez suspended, Carles Puyol will slip back into central defence, leaving Sylvinho and Eric Abidal, who has recovered from a long-standing thigh problem, to contest the left-back berth. Whoever he sends out, Guardiola will have total faith in his lineup. "They want to win every game; hard games, easy games, it doesn't matter," he said. "They run, they help each other. The rest is talent, but first and foremost they have spirit."

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~http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/fixturesresults/round=15278/match=302806/report=pr.html

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