--Day 15th~Seroquel XR 300mg~Remeron 60mg Another Sudden Attack--

Bot I really needed one....

--Seroquel XR--

--Frank Knight and "Herbie-The Tallast elm tree in the world"--

103-year-old man to be buried in coffin made from tree he fought for decades to protect.

Frank Knight was a professional logger but earned his true legacy spending decades protecting New England's tallest elm tree. But as all things must, the 217-year-old tree nicknamed "Herbie" eventually succumbed to Dutch elm disease. And over the weekend, 103-year-old Knight died as well.

But as a final tribute to this unique relationship between man and nature, Knight will be buried in a special casket carved from the 110-foot-tall tree that first sprouted in 1793.

"To have them together like that is a wonderful thing. I feel like Frank took good care of Herbie. Now Herbie will take good care of Frank," Deb Hopkins, a close friend of Knight's, told the Associated Press.

Back in 1956, Knight became the unofficial "tree warden" in Yarmouth, located about 10 miles north of Portland, Maine. At the time, Dutch elm disease was wreaking havoc on the local elm tree population. Even after Herbie became infected, Knight had local workers selectively prune the tree's diseased limbs. Over the years, the tree reportedly survived 14 cases of Dutch elm disease thanks to Knight and the workers.

But in January 2010, the 110-foot-tall tree, whose canopy could reportedly be seen for miles, finally collapsed. "His time has come," Knight told The Associated Press at the time. "And mine is about due, too."

"Frank cared for Herbie for 52 years, and now Herbie will care for Frank forever," his son, Dick Knight, told the Boston Herald.

Over the years, Knight worked to protect other local trees as well, though his works will forever be tied to the relationship he had with Herbie. After the tree fell, its wood was used to make several items, including an electric guitar. Knight did not know that some of Herbie's wood was being set aside for his coffin, designed by local custom furniture maker Chris Becksvoort.

Over the years, Knight and Herbie became something of a legend, with people traveling from around the world to take their picture with the famous tree.

"It wasn't just the tree. It wasn't just Frank. It's almost like a little love story," said Jan Ames Santerre, urban forestry program coordinator for the Maine Forest Service. "He saw that tree and he knew he wanted to save it."

~http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/103-old-man-buried-coffin-made-tree-fought-191232137.html

 

--Happy Birthday Che! The "Freedom Fighter"--

Ernesto Che Guevara's birth happened under a garb of ambiguity. Guevara's birth certificate records his birthday as June 14, 1928. His real birth date was on May 14, 1928. In a way this typified the way Che spent most of his adult life.

The birth certificate was doctored because the family wanted to protect Che's mother from scandal that would come about due to her being pregnant at the time of her marriage.

Che was born in Rosario, Argentina. He was the eldest of his 4 siblings. Che is a nickname that was acquired when Guevara was studying. It means "mate" or "friend" in South America. Che studied medicine in the University of Buenos Aires. He completed his studies in 1953.

~ WWW.CHEGUEVARA.BE

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن‎, ʾUsāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011) was the founder of the al-Qaeda organization, responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was also a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family.

Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden and his organization have been major targets of the War on Terror.

On May 1, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama authorized a raid on bin Laden's suspected location in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The operation was successfully carried out by United States Navy SEALs, with intelligence support from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). During the 40-minute raid, bin Laden was fatally shot in the head. After intelligence searches of the compound were conducted, his body was taken into custody at which point genetic and facial recognition tests were performed. After positive identification, and within 24 hours of his death, bin Laden's body was taken out to sea for burial.

--清明2011--

清明時節雨紛紛，路上行人欲斷魂。
借問酒家何處有？牧童遙指杏花村。
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南北山頭多墓田，清明祭掃各紛然。
紙灰飛作白蝴蝶，淚血染成紅杜鵑。
日落狐狸眠塚上，夜歸兒女笑燈前。
人生有酒須當醉，一滴何曾到九泉。
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~http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/清明

--Zimbabwean dollar--

The Zimbabwean dollar ($, or Z$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies) was the official currency of Zimbabwe between 1980 and 12 April 2009. ~ Although the dollar was considered to be among the highest valued currency units when it was first introduced in 1980 to replace the Rhodesian dollar at a ratio of 1:1, political turmoil and hyperinflation rapidly eroded the value of the Zimbabwe dollar to eventually become one of the least valued currency units in the world, undergoing three redenominations, and banknote denominations being issued for as high as $100 trillion.
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Despite attempts to control inflation by legislation and three separate redenominations in 2006, 2008 and 2009, the use of the dollar as an official currency was effectively abandoned on 12 April 2009 as a result of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe legalising the use of foreign currencies for transactions in January 2009.
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Foreign currencies such as the South African Rand, Botswana Pula, Pound Sterling and the United States Dollar are now used instead for all transactions in Zimbabwe, and the current policy of the government of Zimbabwe has insisted that any attempts to reintroduce Zimbabwean currency should only be considered if the industrial output improves.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe
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~http://www.cato.org/zimbabwe
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Zimbabwe.svg
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg

--Sad News From Terong Island--

死是生命的尽头，当生命终结时，我们便称为死。世界上没有亡灵和魂魄，当人死的时候，就什么都没有了，什么也不知道了，那是根本无法想象的感觉。

死前一秒啊，那要看每个人的心理状态了，有人恐慌，有人害怕，有人微笑，有人从容。 我劝你还是好好享受活着的幸福吧，因为人的生命真的只有一次生命就是不断的向死亡堕落。。。。。
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事实上，死亡并不是终结，只是另一种开始，构成你的元素，只不过又去构建其他的事物。

总相信，人死亡后，肉体随风而去，一切成空，而灵魂是飘渺如烟不会远去的，也许一直伴随着最爱的人身边，一直漂流着，
当然这是我个人最好的设想或着说假想而已．
人死后如果真的有轮回那么今生我好多不能做到实现的事情下辈子一定要作好！！

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~http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/11036390.html
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~http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/13456702.html?fr=qrl&cid=144&index=1

--Come As You Are .......--

--World AIDS Day 2010--

Over 90,000 people are living with HIV in the UK and new infections continue every year. World AIDS Day 2010 is all about raising awareness to tackle HIV prejudice and help stop the spread of HIV.

Explore this site to ensure you understand the facts about HIV and find out what you can do to ACT AWARE. Make a pledge and join people all over the world making a difference on 1 December 2010.
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~http://worldaidsday.org/
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_AIDS_Day
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~http://www.avert.org/origin-aids-hiv.htm
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS

--Leslie Nielsen dies at age 84--

Leslie William Nielsen, OC (February 11, 1926 – November 28, 2010) was a Canadian-American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over 100 films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying over 220 characters.
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Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and worked as a disc jockey before receiving a scholarship to Neighborhood Playhouse. Beginning with a television role in 1948, he quickly expanded to over 50 television appearances two years later. Nielsen appeared in his first films in 1956 and began collecting roles in dramas, westerns, and romance films. Nielsen's lead roles in the science fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956) and disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure (1972) for which he received positive reviews as a serious actor.
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~http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=613963&GT1=28101
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Nielsen

--Clash Of The Titans 2010--

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 24, 2010
Koreas Clash: Seoul a City on the Edge

(CBS) On Wednesday the Obama administration called the North's artillery attack a "premeditated" violation of the longstanding truce.

CBS News correspondent Celia Hatton reports images of emotional memorials, exhausted evacuees and mangled buildings gripped South Korea Wednesday. The country is on high alert following Tuesday's artillery battle between North and South Korea that killed two South Korean marines and two civilians on the island Yeonpyeong.

"I was really scared," said one evacuee.
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~http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/24/eveningnews/main7087803.shtml
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~http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/howitzers-blast-jets-readied-after-north-korea-shells-south/

--Phnom Penh stampede 2010--

Updated November 23, 2010 22:20:46

Buddhist monks have gathered in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh to express condolence to the families of at least 378 people who were killed on Monday evening in a stampede. Cambodia's prime minister, Hun Sen, has called the incident the nation's most tragic event since the end of the Khmer Rouge regime. The government has ordered an investigation but already several different explanations have emerged. Some survivors say police made the situation worse by spraying water over people who had collapsed on a bridge, not realising that they had suffered electric shocks.
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~http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/asiapac/stories/201011/s3074591.htm
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~http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010112244892/National-news/hundreds-die-in-tragic-end-to-water-festival.html

--Tony Curtis(June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010)--

Tony Curtis (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American film actor. He played a variety of roles, from light comedy, such as the musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot, to serious dramatic roles, such as an escaped convict in The Defiant Ones, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. From 1949, he appeared in more than 100 films and made frequent television appearances.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Curtis

--Sep. 11th 2001 9years of pain....--

The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September 11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington, D.C. There were no survivors from any of the flights.

Nearly 3000 victims and the 19 hijackers died in the attacks. According to the New York State Health Department, 836 responders have died as of June 2009. Among the 2752 victims who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center were 343 firefighters and 60 police officers from New York City and the Port Authority. 184 people were killed in the attacks on the Pentagon. The overwhelming majority of casualties were civilians, including nationals of over 70 countries. In addition, there was at least one secondary death – one person was ruled by a medical examiner to have died from lung disease due to exposure to dust from the World Trade Center's collapse.

The United States responded to the attacks by launching the War on Terror: it invaded Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, who had harbored al-Qaeda terrorists. The United States also enacted the USA PATRIOT Act. Many other countries also strengthened their anti-terrorism legislation and expanded law enforcement powers. Some American stock exchanges stayed closed for the rest of the week following the attack and posted enormous losses upon reopening, especially in the airline and insurance industries. The destruction of billions of dollars' worth of office space caused serious damage to the economy of Lower Manhattan.

The damage to the Pentagon was cleared and repaired within a year, and the Pentagon Memorial was built adjacent to the building. The rebuilding process has started on the World Trade Center site. In 2006, a new office tower was completed on the site of 7 World Trade Center. The new 1 World Trade Center is currently under construction at the site and, at 1,776 ft (541 m) upon completion in 2013, it will become one of the tallest buildings in North America. Three more towers were originally expected to be built between 2007 and 2012 on the site. Ground was broken for the Flight 93 National Memorial on November 8, 2009, and the first phase of construction is expected to be ready for the 10th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2011.

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
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~http://airtravel.about.com/od/shoppinggiftgiving/tp/sep11movies.htm
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~http://september11news.com/
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~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFiEgwLQVJk

--Hong Kong issues 'black alert' after deadly Manila hostage crisis--

Hong Kong

Eight Chinese tourists were killed Monday after a hostage crisis in the Philippines came to a violent end. The incident is likely to heap pressure on new president Benigno Aquino, who must confront the diplomatic fallout with his giant neighbor while seeking to reassure tourists that his impoverished nation of 92 million is safe to visit.

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Philippine security forces stormed a tourist bus in the capital, Manila, at around 8.30 p.m. local time after an 11-hour standoff with a man armed with a M-16 rifle who had boarded the bus, taking hostage 22 tourists from Hong Kong and three Filipinos.

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The gunman – a police officer protesting his firing in 2008 – became agitated as night fell and specialist SWAT units encircled the bus. He began shooting hostages, and millions of TV viewers worldwide, including many in China and Hong Kong, watched in horror in bars and restaurants as security forces stormed the bus.

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~http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2010/0823/Hong-Kong-issues-black-alert-after-deadly-Manila-hostage-crisis
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~http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9HQH5Q80&show_article=1

--Hungry Ghost Festival 2010--

The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday celebrated by Chinese in many countries. In the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh lunar month (14th in southern China).
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In Chinese tradition, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month (鬼月), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm. Distinct from both the Qingming Festival (in Spring) and Chung Yeung Festival (in Autumn) in which living descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors, on Ghost Day, the deceased are believed to visit the living.
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On the fifteenth day the realms of Heaven and Hell and the realm of the living are open and both Taoists and Buddhists would perform rituals to transmute and absolve the sufferings of the deceased. Intrinsic to the Ghost Month is ancestor worship, where traditionally the filial piety of descendants extends to their ancestors even after their deaths. Activities during the month would include preparing ritualistic food offerings, burning incense, and burning joss paper, a papier-mache form of material items such as clothes, gold and other fine goods for the visiting spirits of the ancestors. Elaborate meals (often vegetarian meals) would be served with empty seats for each of the deceased in the family treating the deceased as if they are still living. Ancestor worship is what distinguishes Qingming Festival from Ghost Festival because the latter includes paying respects to all deceased, including the same and younger generations, while the former only includes older generations. Other festivities may include, buying and releasing miniature paper boats and lanterns on water, which signifies giving directions to the lost ghosts and spirits of the ancestors and other deities.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Festival
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~http://www.essortment.com/all/hungryghostfes_rjkb.htm
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~http://www.chinavoc.com/festivals/ghost.htm
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~http://www.chinese-culture.net/html/hungry_ghost_festival.html

--Friday the 13th 2010...........--

Friday the 13th occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on a Friday, which superstition holds to be a day of bad luck. In the Gregorian calendar, this day occurs at least once, but at most three times a year. Any month's 13th day will fall on a Friday if the month starts on a Sunday.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th
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~http://www.fridaythe13thmovie.com/
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~http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_%28franchise%29

--海闊天空 - Under A Vast Sky--

--Nobody but YOU........--