--Osama bin Laden to Guantánamo?--

By David S. Cloud and Brian Bennett / Tribune Washington Bureau Thursday, February 17, 2011
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WASHINGTON — If the U.S. captured Osama bin Laden or other senior al-Qaida leaders, they would be probably be imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, CIA Director Leon Panetta said in his first public acknowledgment that the controversial U.S. military prison in Cuba might be used to hold future detainees. ~ Bin Laden and al-Qaida No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, both of whom are believed to be hiding in Pakistan, would likely be moved quickly to the U.S. airbase at Bagram, Afghanistan, for questioning and eventually moved, "probably to Guantanamo," Panetta told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. ~ Most U.S. officials consider it unlikely that bin Laden or al-Zawahiri will be captured alive, but Panetta’s comments appeared to describe a scenario the administration is considering in the event they or other senior al-Qaida leaders are taken into custody. ~
~http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view/20110216cia_chief_hints_that_guantanamo_prison_might_stay_open/
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~http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/16/2070857/close-camps-cia-chief-would-ship.html
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~http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_17408414?source=rss
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~http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/9122538/
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~http://www.statesman.com/news/world/cia-chief-if-captured-bin-laden-would-go-1260428.html
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~https://www.cia.gov/
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda

--25 years later....The Challenger....1986...and The "Journey Continues........" A Challenger's"..--

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For many, no single word evokes as much pain.
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Challenger.
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A quarter-century later, images of the exploding space shuttle still signify all that can go wrong with technology and the sharpest minds. The accident on Jan. 28, 1986 — a scant 73 seconds into flight, nine miles above the Atlantic for all to see — remains NASA's most visible failure.

It was the world's first high-tech catastrophe to unfold on live TV. Adding to the anguish was the young audience: Schoolchildren everywhere tuned in that morning to watch the launch of the first schoolteacher and ordinary citizen bound for space, Christa McAuliffe.

She never made it.

McAuliffe and six others on board perished as the cameras rolled, victims of stiff O-ring seals and feeble bureaucratic decisions.

It was, as one grief and trauma expert recalls, "the beginning of the age when the whole world knew what happened as it happened."....

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~http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41296542?GT1=43001

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~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JKIZ7j20EA&feature=related

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~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hQL0NWS1Rc&feature=related

--被遗忘的时光~蔡琴--

--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

--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

--It's All Coming Back to Me Now 1989--

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~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_cnPVAkGA8
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_Coming_Back_to_Me_Now

--Forever........--

--Xanax: Less Anxiety, More Sleep?--

--'The Lazarus Effect' Film from (RED) & HBO--

In a selfless effort to raise awareness worldwide about the impact that antiretroviral (ARV) drugs have in curing HIV and AIDS, HBO is set to air a new documentary, titled ‘The Lazarus Effect.’ The documentary, which was directed by Lance Bangs and executive produced by Spike Jones, subtly parallels the journey that the more than 29 million people living with HIV or AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa go through every day to the Biblical story of Lazarus.
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The documentary also brilliantly shows the struggles and triumphs that Africans living with HIV or AIDS face and overcome. Bangs interviewed four people who live in Lusaka, Zambia, and have been diagnosed with the disease. Their journeys back to health show that their lives do, indeed, resemble the story of the Lazarus Effect.
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The first powerful shot of ‘The Lazarus Effect’ is of an African woman, who is clearly sick, explaining the story of Lazarus. She detailed how Jesus walked into Lazarus’ grave after he died and pulled him out, saying he would live again. She then says it’s a story of hope, which Bangs showed was the case with the four people he documented.
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~http://www.shockya.com/news/2010/05/01/the-lazarus-effect-hbo-documentary-review/
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~http://www.imdb.com/news/ni2294541/

--Bayern Munich 0 - 2 Internazionale--

Milito's magic gives Inter the Treble
Updated: May 23, 2010, 8:50 AM UK
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Diego Milito scored both goals as Inter Milan sealed an historic treble and ended a 45-year wait to be crowned kings of Europe after defeating Bayern Munich in the Champions League final in Madrid.
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• Jolly: No Hollywood ending for Bayern
• Gotta: tactical triumph for Mourinho
• Hero Milito revels in victory
• Van Gaal: Inter deserved win
• Jose: "My work here is done"
• Champions League final pics
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Milito struck in the 34th and 70th minutes as Inter became the first Italian team to win the treble of league, cup and European Cup in the same season, whilst ending German double-winners Bayern's hopes of doing likewise.



~http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=292088&cc=4716&league=UEFA.CHAMPIONS
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~http://soccernet.espn.go.com/gamecast?id=292088&cc=4716&league=UEFA.CHAMPIONS
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~http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/index.html

--First of May 2010--

--給你..............--

給你.....給你.....給你................................

--On My Way HOME~Enya (1996)--

"On My Way Home" is a single by Irish New Age artist Enya from the album In Memory of Trees. The song achieved considerable success, but less than other singles by Enya. The song was released as the second single from the album and reached #26 on the UK singles charts in December 1996.
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The song refers to Enya's own "Orinoco Flow" with a lyric from said song being sung in "On My Way Home" (turn it up, turn it up, turn it up, up, adieu).
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_My_Way_Home_%28song%29

--S.A.D.N.E.S.S--

The last time that i saw you i saw the pain in your eyes,
I saw the desperation creep out from your disguise.
I didn't know what i had to say or what i had to do,
I didn't know it would be the last time that i ever saw you....
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I wish i would have held you hand, or smiled at you, or waved,
Maybe if i had've your life could have been saved?
But i too was in a mess and i found i could'nt speak,
I thought i would just leave it and talk to you next week.
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Another young life has come to an end,
Another son or daughter, another best friend.
Another thousand people have been left to wonder why,
Another soul has been set free while the rest of us just cry....
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I wonder if you cried that morning when you were so alone?
I wish people would just stop saying "if only we'd have known".
I wonder what you were thinking as that rope pulled so tight?
I wonder if i'd have talked to you if you would have been alright?
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Another young life has come to an end,
Another son or daughter, another best friend,
Another thousand people have been left to wonder why,
Another young person now smiles....
But the rest of us just cry......

--You Raise Me Up ~Josh Groban (2002)--

"You Raise Me Up" is a popular song in the inspirational mould. The music was written by Secret Garden's Rolf Løvland and the lyrics by Brendan Graham. The song has now been covered more than 125 times.
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The song was originally written as an instrumental piece and titled "Silent Story." The melody is based on a traditional Irish tune (especially the opening phrase of its chorus), the Londonderry Air, which is best known as the usual tune to the 1910 song Danny Boy. Løvland approached Irish novelist and songwriter Brendan Graham to write the lyrics to his melody after reading Graham's novels. It was originally released on the 2002 Secret Garden album "Once in a Red Moon," with the vocals sung by Irish singer Brian Kennedy, and sold well in both Ireland and Norway. Originally, Brian Kennedy was supposed to follow Secret Garden on their Asian tour in 2002, but fell ill, and could not attend. He was replaced by Norwegian singer Jan Werner Danielsen, who also later recorded the song together with Secret Garden, but it was never released.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Raise_Me_Up

--HOPELESS--

As I sit here and bleed,
You sit there and plead.
I tried to warn you,
But all you could do was scorn Me.
And as you sit there and weep,
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I can feel death beginning to creep

--人日 2010--

“人日”亦称“人胜节”、“人庆节”、“人口日”、“人七日”等。传说女蜗初创世，在造出了鸡狗猪牛马等动物后，于第七天造出了人，所以这一天是人类的生 日。汉朝开始有人日节俗，魏晋后开始重视。古代人日有戴“人胜”的习俗，人胜是一种头饰，又叫彩胜，华胜，从晋朝开始有剪彩为花、剪彩为人，或镂金箔为人 来贴屏风，也戴在头发上。此外还有登高赋诗的习俗。唐代之后，更重视这个节日。每至人日，皇帝赐群臣彩缕人胜，又登高大宴群臣。如果正月初七天气晴朗，则 主一年人口平安，出入顺利。
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~http://baike.baidu.com/view/6472.htm

--Vincent van Gogh 30 March 1853 ~29 July 1890 (aged 37)--

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, and died largely unknown, at the age of 37, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Little appreciated during his lifetime, his fame grew in the years after his death. Today, he is widely regarded as one of history's greatest painters and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art. Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties, and most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. Although he was little known during his lifetime, his work was a strong influence on the Modernist art that followed. Today many of his pieces—including his numerous self portraits, landscapes, portraits and sunflowers—are among the world's most recognizable and expensive works of art.
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Van Gogh spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers and traveled between The Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught in England. An early vocational aspiration was to become a pastor and preach the gospel, and from 1879 he worked as a missionary in a mining region in Belgium. During this time he began to sketch people from the local community, and in 1885 painted his first major work The Potato Eaters. His palette at the time consisted mainly of sombre earth tones and showed no sign of the vivid coloration that distinguished his later work. In March 1886, he moved to Paris and discovered the French Impressionists. Later he moved to the south of France and was taken by the strong sunlight he found there. His work grew brighter in color and he developed the unique and highly recognizable style which became fully realized during his stay in Arles in 1888.
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The extent to which his mental illness affected his painting has been a subject of speculation since his death. Despite a widespread tendency to romanticise his ill health, modern critics see an artist deeply frustrated by the inactivity and incoherence brought about by his bouts of sickness. According to art critic Robert Hughes, Van Gogh's late works show an artist at the height of his ability, completely in control and "longing for concision and grace".
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

--My Chinese New Year Lunch 2010--

--Ça pleure aussi un homme - 男人的悲哀--

" Un homme un jour, c'est vulnérable
Ça nous ressemble infiniment
Avec le coeur ça nous regarde
Même en ayant l'air d'un géant.
On lui sourit, on le sent proche
On lui invente un peu d'espoir.
Mais superman malgré sa force
A dans les yeux comme du brouillard.
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Ça pleure aussi un homme
Ça oublie sa fierté,
Aussi fragile qu'un môme
Qu'on a laissé tomber.
Qu'il soit le roi de Rome
Ou le clochard du coin.
Ça pleure aussi un homme
Quand il a du chagrin.
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Pour un enfant qu'il vient de perdre
Pour un amour qui le déchire
Un homme un jour ça devient faible
Mais sans jamais oser le dire.
Ça peut avoir des bleus à l'âme
Et les garder toute une vie
En quelques jours comme une femme
Ça peut avoir des cheveux gris.
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Ça pleure aussi un homme.
Ça oublie sa fierté
Aussi fragile qu'un môme
Qu'on a laissé tomber.
Parfois, ça nous étonne
Ça nous rapproche toujours
Dans chaque larme d'homme
Se cache un mot d'amour.
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Qu'il soit le roi de Rome
Ou le clochard du coin.
Ça pleure aussi un homme
Quand ça a du chagrin. "