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Last year at this time maso least received a greeting Frauke Christmas, along with a brief note informing us of their intention to take a "mini-vacation" in Ukraine. The truth is that these supposed vacation, Frauke going to be exercising Election Observer from Germany (or was it by the European Union?) In that country.

this year not to be outdone, another of his emails came to my buzóny Christmas, like the previous year, felicitacióny card with news of adventures as an observer in the recent elections in Azerbajan. Emilio On this occasion he was accompanied with some photos and wrote the report for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany. This document, which can be bonded more down-written in German, so if you do not know a word this language (as happens to me), the Germanic-speaking cop closest you can find and share a few beers while you translate it. I guarantee you a long time to stories about offers of money in exchange for blank ballots, how to deal with inexperienced players, landmines, and anti-American sentiment that runs between the local military (" remnants of its communist past?).

Dears,

Might As Some of you already know, after my first election observation in Ukraine last Christmas, I Decided to repeat once again. So I Was Beginning of November in Azerbaijan in Some lost place at the end of the World, counting votes in the dark and looking for anything resembling a toilet (I reviewed my list of the worst toilet in the World to one I found in a little village called Sinix)

Some of the photos will give you an idea: [ Pictures from Azerbaijan (Gadabay & Baku) ] For those who can read it, herewith attached the report I sent to German Foreign Affairs Ministry: [ Berichtzur(...)Aserbaidschan.pdf ]
As an american friend of mine said, an Election Observation is like a blind date that lasts for four days . My partner happened to be a quite weird russian guy…

We rode an UAS Jeep for three days in the most impossible roads trying to avoid any landmines, Interviewing candidates, election Commissions and the like. Among the funniest visits Was the One to a polling station in a military complex. We ended up HAVING breakfast with the "commander" and listening to war stories and to American bashing of all sorts for Not Giving back
Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan and Their wasting time in Iraq (do Kurds Have More Rights Than Azeris (?))

All in all, we saw and Heard of all kinds of tricks to manipulate an election.

the end of his post, a collection of links to websites where you can sign up if you're interested in acting as an observer for your country, or by the Uni & # 243, n Europe. They also clearly explain what would be your possible role, where does the money to finance your stay in the country, and just about any question that can rise . Take a look. If you have any

Interest on doing Something of the like, you May contact:

• Germans: www.zif-berlin.org
• USA: register as a candidate in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Or
• Generally:
  • OSCE - ODIHR
  • EU - Election Observer Rooster

All the best,

Frauke.

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The best Christmas story

About a year ago, I read the blog of an anonymous Australian how some families live down there all this storm of good wishes, gifts and vacations. I should mention that this guy is very "anti-kids" and although I do not share this attitude, if you are enjoying the way they express this rejection. I can not find your blog, and the original address where I read his story, but fortunately at the time I recorded the text on my computer and I can reproduce it faithfully. What la disfrutéis!

December 18 ^th , 2004
My aunt has 10 children under the age of 16. I've met two of them, but have no interest in meeting the others. It's not that hard to avoid them: they live interstate and the family isn't close. I have serious issues with my aunt and her tribe, as they take my aging grandmother for granted and allow her to give them money (poor duck is on the old age pension, and barely has enough to get by on, but still gives everything she can to them.) My aunt is getting mega bucks from the government, and has 8 animals as well as 10 kids.

My mother rang her to find out what she should send the kids for Christmas. She was thinking of buying them a group present, but my aunt said: “No, we'd prefer you to buy each of them a present of around the same value.” When my mum questioned this, my aunt replied: “Well the thing that our kids love about Christmas is returning all the gifts they've been given and buying what they really want.”

I was absolutely gob-smacked when mum told me about this. Those little shits! Is this what Christmas has become?

Mum was going to make them presents by hand so they couldn't be returned, but I said: “Why don't you go and buy some presents for the Wishing Tree with the money you would've spent on the kids and send them a card telling them what you've done?” (The good thing about this plan is that it benefits disadvantaged children, and should teach my aunts snotty brats a lesson!)

K-mart in Australia has a “Wishing Tree” where they put little tags up with a disadvantaged child's details on it so you can buy them a present. I'm sure there are similar schemes all over the world, but thought I should explain anyway!

Those little shits aren't going to be returning our gifts this year! I can't wait for Xmas day to see what they've got to say about this!

Unos días después, el final de la historia:

December 25 ^th , 2004
Ok, well I wasn't expecting to be able to give you an update just yet, seeing as it is before 8am on Xmas morning, but “they” opened their gifts last night.

It seems like I have started a family war over the wishing tree idea (I'm quite proud of myself actually!)

When my aunt recieved all the cards for the kids, she assumed that since there were no presents, the kids would be getting cash or gift vouchers. She rang my parents and said: “I haven't opened the cards yet, because I didn't want them to get their hands on the money before Xmas. Could you give me an idea of how much you've put in the cards?, because the kids have got their eyes on some big ticket items this year, and I want to know if they're gonna come up short. I'll have to ask mum to make up the difference.” (My grandma who is on the old-age pension!)

My mum said: “We'd prefer to wait til Xmas day if you don't mind. We want the kids to remember that Xmas is about 'giving and not getting.' I'm sure the kids will still be able to afford some wonderful presents, without having to get your mother to chip in.”

My aunt grumbled and got my dad on the phone (her brother) to whinge about how nasty my mum was. Apparently he was really cold about it and just told her to get over it and teach her family some manners.

ANYHOOOOOO… Last night they got a call from the kids to do the whole “forced thankyou” thing. Anyway, whilst they kids are going through the motions of thanking mum and dad for buying some other kid a present in their name, the eldest child was chucking a tanty in the background. She was screaming: “I hate Aunty Chris and Uncle Tony! I wanted an iPod this christmas! How will i get it now? It's not fair!” and that set the rest of the kids off, crying and whingeing about not getting what they wanted.

Mum and Dad were gobsmacked! My uncle got on the phone and told mum and dad that they'd ruined Xmas! Hahahaha! Mum told him: “If this is what Christmas has become for you lot, then I'm glad I've ruined it! Your children are selfish and have forgotten what the spirit of Christmas means. It's a crying shame that you've raised your children to believe that it's OK to return gifts that other people have put their time and money into, simply to get something better; sparing no thought to the feelings of the gift-giver, or people less fortunate.”

I love my mum! Anyway, the upshot is that the wishing tree fiasco has caused a war within our extended family. But other members of the family are surprisingly supportive; maybe we only did what they wish they had the courage to do!

Ahora en serio, ¿de qué va en realidad la Navidad?

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Another expression characteristic of this society, "Your fifteen minutes of fame." It refers to the ephemeral state of recognition that sooner or later anyone can get either through a direct effort to get it, or so completely fortuitous. This is quite common among scientists, and perhaps why most of us have a weblog: Sooner or later we will reach these virtual fifteen minutes in which our blog be accessed almost constantly with questions, comments and requests more about our research. Bradley was

Lucier who alerted me to this expression: In an informal conversation in which the review told them how "bad journalism & # 8221; had been quoted in several newspapers and English television, let me quote, at which half angrily replied: " ; Rather three days of fame! "I explained then that expression became a metaphor for this kind of social effect after a famous Andy Warhol quote 1968, who said

In the future everyone will Be world-famous for 15 minutes.

Well, now it's Brad's turn. And had a few years ago, long after some of his influential articles. Reliving the past, another recently published work has had an impact not only among the scientific community, but has been leaked to the news for its important consequences for the world of medicine: Collapse mammograms [with its new method] improves tumor detection .

The problem is the high cost of the visual results of mammograms, and the complexity and size. A doctor who would quickly consult other colleagues living a long distance, for example, should send these images by half in which no information is lost. Eventually, this process of making mammography plus shipping by mail can become quite costly, and that is why clinical around the world are investing time and financial resources to initiate studies for solutions and methods compression, while losing certain information, do not do the really important details of the outcome of mammography, more specifically, calcium deposits are beginning to tumors. Professor Lucier, along with a team of researchers from the Universities of Purdue and South Florida, has solved this problem and the result has been published to great success in the December 20 issue of the prestigious medical journal Radiology. Maria

Kallergi, Bradley J. Lucier, Claudia G. Berman, Marla R. Hersh, J. Jihai Kim, Margaret S. Szabunio, and Robert A. Clark: High-Performance Wavelet Compression for Mammography: Localization Response Operating Characteristic Evaluation.
The tested wavelet-based compression technique importations to Be an Accurate approach for Digitized mammography and high-yield Visually lossless compression rate and Improved tumor localization. Echoing

important discovery, newspapers, journals and websites around the world have contacted the author, and published reviews to effect. A collection of these can be read below:

• Chicago Tribune: Web widen reading of mammograms May
• Forbes : Compressing Digital Mammograms May Improve Detection
• Science Daily : File Compression Can Expand Mammography's Power
• Photonics : Researchers: Compressing Digital Files
  Makes Mammogram Reading More Accurate
• The Engineer Online : Improved mammography
• Journal and Courier : Reading mammograms: Less tells more
• medGadget : Mammography: Now the Files Are Compressed, Too
• The Data Compression Blog : Compression Vs. Breast Cancer
• Purdue University News : File compression can expand mammography's power
• Medical University of South Carolina Health News : Compressing Digital Mammograms May Improve Detection
• Health on the Net : Compressing Digital Mammograms May Improve Detection
• Innovations Report : File compression can expand mammography’s power
• Inside INdiana business : Purdue Study Looks to Improve Mammogram Readings

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Minneapolis: In a place where snow and freezing cold it should be noted about six months year, it is natural for people to imitate their favorite animal (a sort of giant mole with certain shared characteristics with the squirrel), and build their buildings so that one can go from one to another without having to walk on the street. So, frequently seen in the elevators the following colorful options:

• Skyway: seventh and Photos seventeenth in the show below teach this type of structure. Click on them (in fact, any of the images in this post) to see them larger.
• Street (the street): Who really wants to risk falling, dodging patches of ice that form on the pavement, fighting the cold wind coming down from Canada & # 225;, or walk half blinded by the snow that will not stop spanking and damage your eyes? Well, actually, I recognize that from time to time fun.
• Tunnel: Tunnels not only connect underground buildings, but also home to large areas of restaurants, shops and even offices, windows clinical application of number to number , or samples of art and architecture. Sometimes they are so long and narrow, it is necessary to use concave mirrors to prevent collisions with the walkers of the streets perpendicular (photo eleventh).

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Influenced by the great love of Michiki Koshita to classic cinema, started reagalarnos DVDs of the best restorations of films from great directors like Hitchcock or Billy Wilder. Little by little, we were putting together films by other directors and other times, but always choosing between all those versions that offer possibilities "widescreen" or alternatively, the original format chosen by the director himself (as is the case of Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick). On rare occasions, only one possible format is present in the market, and usually not optimal. In that case, and only in that case, we acquired a copy in hopes that in future any other airline a better version.

As a general rule, do at least one copy of these films, and the originals are stored safely in our shelves in Lafayette. The "black box" where we store the non-original is then used over and over again, and has seen many miles as their owners. We have several methods for copying DVDs, and here present that I use on my PowerBook (with Mac OS X operating system, of course).

The first step is to download the DVD to your hard drive. It should download an "as-is" to control their Sizeand modify your content if you want to ignore parts of it or compressing it. But if your burner is new enough, you agree regióny phone records of any blank discs have a capacity large enough, you can create a iso image and burn directly to any of the procedures explained later. To create the iso image , you must use the dd utility of Unix, open a terminal and find the "device" where the operating system mounts the DVD player, using this command df :

>
df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/ dev/disk0s3 156039264 89086792 66440472 57% /
devfs 180 180 0 100% / dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% / dev
1024 1024 0100% /.
vol automount-nsl [391] 0 0 0 100% / Network automount-fstab
[394] 0 0 0 100% / automount / Servers automount-static
[394 ] 0 0 0 100% / automount / static
/ dev/disk1 16,063,052 16,063,052 0 100% / Volumes / Thesis

The film is in / dev/disk1 . We begin by "removing the device, and then proceed to copy the corresponding iso image , and finally remount the device with DiskTool order in the drive:

> DiskTool-u disk1 disk1 device
unmounted Will Be ...
*** Notifications Complete for type 1
*** Responding yes to unmount - disk1 ***
Disk Unmounted ('disk1')
> dd if = / dev/disk1 of = NombreDeLaPeli.iso

618 152 +0 records in 618152 +0 records out 316493824 bytes transferred is
in 139.126707 secs (2274860 bytes / sec)
> DiskTool-r
Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
> DiskTool-m disk1
disk1 device will Attempt to Be mounted ...
*** Disk Appeared ('disk1', mountpoint ='', fstype = 'udf' volname = 'thesis')
Completed Disk Mounting
> eject
"disk1" unmounted .
"disk1" ejected.

But not everyone has the latest technology available, not everyone is interested in copying the whole DVD. It is then recommended to use a software "freeware" or DVDBackup MacTheRipper to copy DVD content to your hard drive and capable of handling. Either of these two programs perform this operation no matter the region of it, either wholly, or taking parts selected by the user (for example, one can & # 237; to choose just the main movie taken of extras, disregarding the original language dubbing, subtitles in one language, and sound as s & # 243; as one of the systems offered). Upon completion of this step (in espanglis call "rip"), somewhere in the hard disk will be a folder, call it "TesisAmenabar"-within which there must be at least a subfolder called "VIDEO_TS", which contain all the files. BUP. IFO and. VOB.

Unfortunately, the native program iDVD can not burn this material to DVD, but instead, we have two main methods: one commercial and one freeware:

The method , all trade goes through using the program Roxio Popcorn that lets you compress and burn any DVD, regardless of their size. This program is by far the best of its kind I have tasted, not to mention how easy that is its use and the excellent quality of the copies produced. There's really no sense that you use this program so expensive if your blank DVDs are the appropriate size and compression is not required.

The method using only freeware is restricted to the ripped folder above to have a capacity not exceeding the maximum of your hard virgin . In that case, proceed according to the following two steps:

1. Creating iso image of the folder : To do this, is the perfect tool mkisofs, which is part cdrtools package. If not, you have to download it via your package in fink (of course, I'll assume you have fink installed on your Mac, otherwise, stop by the PA ; sourceforge project page, and go install it: fink.sourceforge.net .)
   To install the cdrtools , open a terminal and enter the order

   > fink install cdrtools

   To convert the old folder to iso file , enter the following command in terminal:

   > mkisofs-dvd-video-o / Users / Francisco / Desktop / tesis.iso / Users / Francisco / Desktop / TesisAmenabar /

   takes a long time, and meanwhile, the console will see lines of information as throughout the following process: 0.22%

   done, Estimated finish Sun
November 7 18:36:26 2005 0.44% done, Estimated finish Sun
November 7 18:36:29 2005 0.66% done, Estimated finish Sun November 7
18:39:02 2005 0.88% done, Estimated finish Sun
November 7 18:38:23 2005 1.09% done, Estimated finish Sun
November 7 18:39:32 2005 1.31% done, Estimated finish Sun November 7, 1918: 2005 44:07
1.53% done, Estimated finish Sun November 7 18:41:56 2005 1.75%
done, Estimated finish Sun November 7 18:49:50 2005
...
99.97% done, Estimated finish Sun
November 7 18:24:01 2005 Total translation table size: 0
Rockridge acodeributes Total bytes: 0 Total
directory bytes: 2048 Path table
size (bytes): 26 Max brk space
Used 0 2285776 extents
wricodeen (4464 Mb)

   If you wish, you can make a further check to make sure the iso file is corrupt ... I think appropriate command here is isoinfo .
2. Burn the iso file to DVD : Open "Disk Utility" (Which is a native Mac OS X), and you'll see the iso file newly created appears in the tray on the left. Click on it and choose "Burn" in the appropriate menu, puts the DVD into the burner and wait ...

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The news came to us with the news on Monday morning, then a few hours from our match against Sara Assicurazioni. The news just reported the disappearance of the famous wrestler Eddie "La Raza" Guerrero, occurred in circumstances still unclear. A world that of which the company wresling Catiline is an increasing interest it. If the only first involved seemed only Tomma and Gava (regular viewers TV shows), this year also Serra seems like an evolution of Ric Flair and his associates and even the coach is forced to get an education due to the many figures who is forced to sell at newsstands.
But what most impressed our society is certainly a strange coincidence that Guerrero's death has taken place in the city of Minnesota, then in the city for a few months home to our native Giulio Ciraolo. Cyrus is now the best known more as a profiteer of doctorates in the States around that as a researcher and Staff that there are widespread rumors that he planned to debut in the golden world of American wrestling with the nickname "Super super round."
Moreover, the city of Minneapolis was also the birthplace of the famous Brock Lesnar, a former world champion of wrestling, and it seems that this coincidence did decide to take the fateful decision Cyrus.

The news on Monday morning was so convinced the Cyrus the great step, thus giving both the doctor that the likely return in Italy, at least to give a hand to his companions to reach the Pratone. His first words PROFESSIONALS wrestlers have apparently been "What will it take ever to do the wrestling! But you remember when the ball squeezed against the shame to the room? Or last year when I started the Royal Rumble against Sara Insurance? I have already thought about the name John Cira. "
At Ciro therefore the best wishes for your bright new career, hoping that viewers are not as careless Bardelino, who informed me that Gava and Tomma could not have been out for a beer as committed to see the return of Hulk Hogan in the ring, said sarcastically, "The two of them are all idiots!"

Arts Job Gava y de Tona, Tomado of "The Echo di Catilina " No. 9, second year.

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