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Mystery and crime books, plays and films.
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Online Coaching Classes For AIEEE
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This year (2010) the students had a quite easy AIEEE question paper. The CBSE retained the format of AIEEE to a single paper test. The number of questions for AIEEE 2009 was reduced per section to 30 from 35 last year. This made AIEEE paper of 90 questions to be attempted in three hours. For more detail Visit- [link]... more »
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OT - Cyber Crime
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60 Minutes last Sunday ran an interesting segemtn on cyber crime buy nation states and large criminal groups. Several of the attacks on infrastructure took place in Brazil, where major cities were left without power for several days. There appeared to be little that we have done to avoid similar attacks. The loses... more »
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OT - Vancouver Olympics
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A fair warning.... To those who live in cities which want to host the Olympics, be warned. This urge to demonstrate the ego of a city can be a disaster. We are no longer living in Vancouver, thank the gods, but that is the source of our news and more. The city and province have spent fortunes on massive structures of limited use. How many speed skaters... more »
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Mosaic Books - Kelowna
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I jouneyed south last week, to Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley. A trip made bad due to computer glitches between the travel agent and the airline, but back at last after two extra days! Mosaic Books is a wonderful bookstore in central Kelowna. Always an excellent selection of remainders. So I tucked LeHane's latest (his... more »
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A Place of Executiom (on PBS)
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How many of you watched the conclusion to the novel *A Place of Execution* by Val McDermid, which aired last night on PBS? Where any of you able to guess the ending? What was your reaction to the ending?
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Dawkins/Brown interview
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YouTube has an interview between biologist Richard Dawkins and mentalist Derren Brown. Brown is very forward in stating that his area of expertise involves showmanship, illusion, hypnotism, suggestion, psychology, etc.; he does not claim or believe in so-called psychic phenomena. Dawkins possesses the zeal of a religious fanatic to disprove any and... more »
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H1H1
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Diagnosed today with the first H1N1 case on our block! Not the honor I'd expected to receive, but you take what you can get. Anyway, self-quarantined for a week, just to void sharing. Don
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