Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine! 8)

In Iceland in 1991, the volcano Hekla erupted at the same time that auroras were visible overhead. Hekla, one of the most famous volcanoes in the world, has erupted at least 20 times over the past millennium, sometimes causing great destruction. The last eruption occurred only six years ago but caused only minor damage. The green auroral band occurred fortuitously about 100 kilometers above the erupting lava.

Others Astronomy photos.

One of the most important philosophical insights in Buddhism comes from what is known as the theory of emptiness. At its heart is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are. In our day-to-day experience, we tend to relate to the world and to ourselves as if these entities possess self- enclosed, definable, discrete, and enduring reality. For instance, if we examine our own conception of selfhood we will find that we tend to believe in the presence of an essential core to our being which characterizes our individuality and identity as a discrete ego, independent of the physical and mental elements that constitute our existence. The philosophy of emptiness reveals that this is not only a fundamental error but also the basis for attachment, clinging, and the development of numerous prejudices.

Effectively, the notion of intrinsic independent existence is incompatible with causation. This is because causation implies contingency and dependence, while anything that possesses independent existence would be immutable and self-enclosed. Everything is composed of dependently related events, of continuously interacting phenomena with no fixed immutable essence, which are themselves in constantly changing dynamic relations. Things and events are “empty” in that they do not possess any immutable essence, intrinsic reality or absolute “being” that affords independence. This fundamental truth of “the way things really are” is described in the Buddhist writings as “emptiness,” or shunyata in Sanskrit.

If on the quantum level, matter is revealed to be less solid and definable than it appears, then it seems to me that science is coming closer to the Buddhist contemplative insights of emptiness and interdependence.

One may ask, Apart from misrepresenting reality, what is wrong with believing in the independent, intrinsic existence of things? For Nagarjuna, this belief has serious negative consequences. Nagarjuna argues that it is the belief in intrinsic existence that sustains the basis for a self-perpetuating dysfunction in our engagement with the world and with our fellow sentient beings. By according intrinsic properties of attractiveness, we react to certain objects and events with deluded attachment, while toward others, to which we accord intrinsic properties of unattractiveness, we react with deluded aversion. In other words, Nagarjuna argues that grasping at the independent existence of things leads to affliction, which in turn gives rise to a chain of destructive actions, reactions, and suffering. In the final analysis, for Nagarjuna, the theory of emptiness is not a question of the mere conceptual understanding of reality. It has profound psychological and ethical implications.

Taken from a Amazon customer review of the book:

The Dalai Lama's interest in science began when he was a small boy, shut away with elderly tutors in the gigantic Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. He tells the story of spending hours and hours tinkering with the mechanical objects left there by his predecessor, the 13th Dalai Lama. Some readers will be surprised to see that his fascination with mechanics, science and technology was established then and has long flourished despite his having had no formal education in the sciences.

About a decade after his exile in 1959 he began traveling extensively, and ever since he's enjoyed long friendships with many scientists, including the late renowned philosopher of science Sir Karl Popper, physicist Carl von Weizsäcker and the late quantum physicist David Bohm. This knowledge is the basis for the book and HH convenes neuroscientists and Buddhist scholars to define the next steps in the study of the mind and brain. These have typically been intimate meetings at his residence in Dharamsala, India. The descriptions are heavy and deep. The main thrust of the book is how science and Buddhism share a common objective: to serve humanity and create a better understanding of the world. Science offers powerful tools for understanding the interconnectedness of all life, he says. Indeed!

See also Scans of Monks' Brains Show Meditation Alters Structure, Functioning, an example of a collaboration between Dalai Lama and neuroscientists.

International wildlife experts have located hundreds of wild elephants on a treeless island in the swamps of south Sudan, where they apparently avoided unchecked hunting during more than 20 years of war.

"We flew out of a cloud, and there they were. It was like something out of Jurassic Park," said Tom Catterson, working on a U.S.-funded environment program in south Sudan.

Environmentalists are keeping the location of the island in the Sudd area secret to prevent poachers from killing the animals.

Environmentalists are only now beginning to discover the extent of the damage on animal populations, and are looking for additional pockets where animals could not be reached by rebels or armed groups looking for meat and export products like tusks.

It is possible there are other herds of elephants -- mostly unheard of in the contemporary south -- hiding out in the Sudd, an area so flat the Nile River breaks up into hundreds of channels and lakes.

Two oil companies have been given concession rights by the southern government in areas deep in the Sudd previously undisturbed by seismic testing and exploratory drilling.

Both the ministry and international experts are worried about the potential for damage in the fragile swamp.

Related: Huge Wildlife Migration Discovered in Southern Sudan.

More than a million animals, including elephants, buffaloes, ostriches, lions, giraffes and a rare type of stork, have been unexpectedly seen living and migrating across Southern Sudan, where no surveys of wildlife had been conducted for the past 25 years due to civil war in the region.

Scientists were finally able to conduct aerial surveys of the savannahs for wildlife. To their surprise, they counted more than 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope and Mongalla gazelle. They also saw at least 8,000 elephants

Photo: Herd of white-eared kob, Boma National Park.

PALANGKARAYA, Central Kalimantan (Reuters) - Bound hand and foot, disheveled orangutans caught raiding Borneo's oil palm crops silently await their fate as a small crowd of plantation workers gather to watch.

Thousands have strayed into the path of international commerce as Indonesia and Malaysia, their last remaining habitats, race to convert their forests to profitable palm crops.

Branded pests for venturing out from their diminishing forest habitats into plantations where they eat young palm shoots, orangutans could be extinct in the wild in ten years time, the United Nations said in March.

Fighting against this grim prediction is the Nyaru Menteng Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) centre in Central Kalimantan, which rescues orangutans and returns them to the wild at the cost of US$3,000 per ape.

"It's not just orangutans -- bears, gibbons -- everybody is losing their home," said Droscher-Nielsen.

Indonesia and Malaysia together produce 83 percent of the world's palm oil. Made by crushing fresh fruit, the reddish-brown oil is riding high in the commodities charts, with crude prices up over 15 percent this year after rising 40 percent in 2006.

Used in cookies, toothpaste, ice cream and breads it is the world's second most popular edible oil after soy.

Demand is also soaring for palm oil-derived biofuel, despite objections from critics who slam the "green" alternative to pricey crude oil as "deforestation diesel" because of the destruction wreaked on forests to make way for palm plantations.

Forty local Dayak women look after the current crop of 18 palm oil "orphans," whose mothers have been killed; bottle-feeding them milk, administering medicine and supervising their climbing and nest-building.

After "forest school," the apes graduate to eventual release.

"They are cute and funny," said Sukawati. "They make me laugh."

"The orangutans can withstand a certain degree of logging, as most loggers don't take the orangutan food trees," said Bhayu Pamungkas of the World Wide Fund for Nature.

"But they have no chance with oil palm -& there's no chance for the orangutan if they clear-cut all the forest."

def test_templateEmpStr():
    import stringtemplate
    st = stringtemplate.StringTemplate("empty:$s$ok")
    st['s'] = '' #None,'' ok
    print str(st)
    st = stringtemplate.StringTemplate("empty:$m.s$ok")
    st['m'] = {'s': ''}
    print str(st) # throw exception!

  File "..\\stringtemplate\\language\\ASTExpr.py", line 276, in getObjectProperty
    value = o[ASTExpr.DEFAULT_MAP_VALUE_NAME]
KeyError: '_default_'

I change the line if not value: to if value is None: to fix this so as to allow an empty string in a dict.

        if isinstance(o, stringtemplate.Aggregate) or isinstance(o, dict):
	    #sys.stderr.write("[getObjectProperty] o = " + str(o) + '\n')
            try:
                value = o[propertyName]
            except:
                value = None
            if value is None: #if not value: use if value is None instead to fix !?
                # no property defined; if a map in this group
                # then there may be a default value
                value = o[ASTExpr.DEFAULT_MAP_VALUE_NAME]

(From Wikipedia)

A scientific study of the teamwork of army ants has discovered how they are prepared to let their fellow ants walk all over them to get the job done.

They found that the ants did indeed plug the holes, but the team also discovered that individuals would size-match themselves to a hole for the best fit.

The ant becomes a "living surface" remaining in place for hours at a time while thousands of foragers walk back and forth across the trail. At the end of the day, when the traffic eventually diminishes, the ant that forms this motionless plug will detect that and pop out of the hole and run home.

Dr Powell said: "Broadly, our research demonstrates that a simple but highly specialised behaviour performed by a minority of ant workers can improve the performance of the majority, resulting in a clear benefit for the society as a whole."

• Nothing stays the same forever.

• We are all "perfect" as we are. Another way to say this is "We are all perfectly imperfect."

• Each person is much greater than the sum of their parts.

• Trust in your intelligence, talents, creativity, and soul, and do the same with all you come in contact with.

• Each person is capable of many great things.

• We each have all the resources we need to live a fulfilling, healthy life.

• The whole world is talking to you and offering you all you need.

• Each person's life is supported by an "intelligence" (Spirit) that is the generative force manifesting the universe we live in.

• "You" are a relationship. You are not alone.

• Your body holds the answer to many puzzles your cognitive mind alone cannot express or solve.

• Life is a paradox we will never fully comprehend with our rational mind.

• Your thoughts, actions, and emotions are all part of "one loop" of intelligence.

• Logic and emotion are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other.

• The body is intelligent, expressive and wise and communicates in a highly sophisticated and systematic manner.

• Your "body language" leads to the generation of your verbal language.

• Pain, stress, and disease are all due to excess energy being trapped in the body.

• When experiencing a challenge, staying "embodied and present in the moment" will greatly aid you in solving or dissolving the challenge.

• In order to stay embodied and present your body needs to be able to digest and assimilate your emotions.

• The meaning of our life (our reason for living), is a mystery we're all attempting to figure out.

• Everything that occurs in your life has the possibility of being transmuted into a life affirming gift.

• With humility we can realize what we don't know is much larger than what we do know.

• Every challenge you encounter has a solution.

• "Problem" and "solution" are two sides of the same coin.

• Suffering, and hopefully joy as well, will visit you many times in the course of your life.

• Most of us live much of our life in the past, believing we are living in the present.

• We each have the task of giving the story of our life a happy ending.

• No matter how hurtful or "wrong" we find certain people's actions to be, we'll do well to consider that each person acts from a place of "positive intention".

• We'll do well to rest easy in the knowledge that frailty and failing are part of the human condition.

As delicate as finely blown glass, the presence of this rare tropical gem is used by rainforest ecologists as an indication of high habitat quality and its demise alerts them of ecological change. Rivaling the refined beauty of a stained glass window, the translucent wings of the glasswing butterfly shimmer in the sunlight like polished panes of turquoise, orange, green, and red.

Native to Columbia, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador, the glasswing butterfly is usually observed feeding or flying high in the subcanopy of the tropical forest in the Andes Mountains.

Well adapted to the Andean climate and elevation, glasswing butterflies seem incessant in their zigzagging pursuit of flower nectar. Members of the species do not like to rush their meals and may spend hours on a single flower bloom while nectaring.

As human populations grow, butterfly populations tend to shrink. Thus, the future of the exotic glasswing butterfly is uncertain. As part of the growing international trade of butterflies, specimens are often taken from the wild, but may also be cultivated for sale on butterfly ranches. Intensive farming with agrochemicals and increased ranching in the Andes greatly threaten the glasswing species and its associates. Other activities that make room for man, such as extensive logging and coal mining, also devastate the crucial habitat of the glasswings.

Beautiful photos of Glasswing Butterfly!

I'm ringing to cancel my appointment. Something came up (you see).

약속을 취소 하려고 전화 했어요. 바쁜 일이 생겼거든요.

Sangmin has just gone out to play table tennis.

상민씨는 타꾸 치려고 방금 나갔어요.

At first I didn't particularly like kimch'i, but I got used to it. (get used to: iksuk haeji-)

처음에는 김치가 그렇게 마음에 들지 않았는데, 익숙 해졌어요.

When did you graduate?

언제 졸업핬어요?

We met by chance in a bar.

술집에서 우연히 마났어요.

That's strange! Chris has come back already.

이상하네요! 크리스는 벌써 돌아왔어요.

What did you do last night? Tell me the truth.

어제 밤에 뭘 했어요? 솔직히 말 해보세요.

The two brightest objects in the night sky appeared to go right past each other last week. On the night of May 19, Earth's Moon and the planet Venus were visible in the same part of the sky, and at closest approach were less than one degree apart.

Link: Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

There 's a oto.

"For Just A $30 Donation, You Will Get INSTANT Access To Over $1000 In Life-Changing Content From Robert Kiyosaki, Brian Tracy, Og Mandino And More..."

T'ang mashyŏ-boseyo! (t'ang: spicy soup)

Please try drinking the spicy soup!

You should visit Pulguksa one time (literally, Please visit ..!)

Pulguksa han bŏn ka-boseyo!

Pappŭ-jiman ka-boseyo.

Even though you are busy, please go and see.

T'akku-rul mot ch'yŏ-bwassŏyo? Kurŏm han bŏn hae-boseyo.

Have you not tried playing table tennis? In that case do try once.

Jaemin hasn't come yet? Please (try) waiting a little longer.

Jaemin-ssi ajik an wassŏyo? Kurŏm chogŭm tŏ kidaryŏ-boseyo.

It's really apposite and funny description about bugs fixing and testing! :)

So anyway, I've been trying to stay on top of too many projects, and I've noticed that whenever I really focus on one of the projects (say, the testing books) the other projects all pop up a bunch of issues with "urgent!" notices on them. No sooner do I whack one of them than do another two or three pop up.

Now, fortunately for me (and unfortunately for the moles' heads), I've discovered automated testing. Everytime I find a new problem, I outline it with automated tests. Then I fix the problem, and write some more tests. This means that not only am I whacking the mole's head, but I'm covering the mole hole with something -- concrete or canvas, depending on the day and the nature of the hole. Whatever the covering, that module is going to have fewer mole heads popping up in the future, and pursued to its logical end, the application's problem areas will eventually be covered with tests. No more uncovered mole holes!

(Cue amusing image of a bunch of frustrated moles banging their heads against soft but unyielding mole hole covers. Hmm, that seems like a good testing book cover... ;)

Female hammerhead sharks can reproduce without having sex, scientists confirm.

The scientists say the discovery raises important issues about shark conservation.

In the wild, these animals have come under extreme pressure through overfishing and many species have experienced sharp declines.

If dwindling shark groups resort to parthenogenesis to reproduce because females have difficulty finding mates, this is likely to weaken populations still further, the researchers warn.

The reason is that asexual reproduction reduces genetic diversity and this makes it harder for organisms to adapt - to changed environmental conditions or the emergence of a new disease, for example.

오늘은 6월7일 화요일이에요.

이번 토요일에 무슨 약속이 있어요?

네 개학 동장회가 있어요.

언제가 김선생의 생일이에요?

금요일에 십, 육월.

이번 일요일에 무엇일 하려고 해요?

집 사람하고 쇼핑하려고 해요.

다음 일요일에는 어디 가려고 해요?

도봉산에 가려고 해요.

언제부터 휴가에요?

다음 금요일부터 십칠, 육월.

어제는 누구하고 점심을 먹었어요?

월요일에 토니와하고 점심을 먹었어요.

Onŭl hakkyo-e mot kayo (headaches)

머리가 아프거든요.

Ilyoillar-e shinae-e mot kayo (another appointment)

다른 약속이 있거든요.

Onŭl pam t'akku mot ch'yŏyo (arm (pal) has begun to hurt)

팔이 아프기 시작했거든요.

Noraebang-e kayo? Na-nun kayo (don't like noraebangs)

나는 안 가요, 노래방을 싫어하거든요 [안 좋아하거든요].

Jaemin-ssi mot kayo? Kurŏm chal toenneyo (I can't go either)

나도 못 가거든요.

When I am searching on Google about dsl signal loss, I come across Mr Wissel blog about his fun experience with getting Singnet broadband! :)

The other day, I was complaining to a support guy and he replied to me there is no way to assure that the problem won't happen again, say when there is a lightning! .. :)

Wonderful!! :) :)

"The biggest difference between him and me is the mentality. He's got two championship rings in a row. I'm not saying I found out today, but I can hear very strongly from him, 'You are the biggest player on the court. You need to go in and change the game. You need to be dominant.' He repeated that time and time again.

"I feel a little bit different. I feel his heart."

For all that they share and shared on Tuesday, that was perhaps the most valuable thing Olajuwon could give him.

Good news! Dawson is teaching Yao to power up.

Suppose you have a lot of information and you want to put it together so it makes sense. Here’s a suggestion from psychologists at Harvard Medical School — sleep on it.

“But remembering lots of facts is not the only or even the main function of memory,” says Walker, a sleep expert who works at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “The key to solving problems and generating new ideas involves how those facts are put together into a bigger picture, one we’ve not seen before.”

Walker suspected that big-picture work, too, is best done on the back of sleep, at least one purpose of which is to consolidate information. He got together with Jeffrey Ellenbogen, a sleep neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and other colleagues to test the idea.

“Our results strongly imply that sleep is actively engaged in the cognitive processing of our memories,” Ellenbogen adds. “Knowledge appears to expand both over time and with sleep.”

Walker says he likes the idea of meditation as a state “when different kinds of information cocktails are being mixed in the brain, another way of brewing new generalizations and ideas. If this is true, it opens the exciting possibility of manipulating brain states to help us solve problems and learn.”

Other research has shown that memories seem to be consolidated both during dreamless sleep at the beginning of the night and during dreams that usually occur later. How does this tie in with the conversations between hippocampus and cortex? One idea is that new memories move out of the hippocampus and into the cortex during dreamless sleep earlier in the night. When new and old memories meet, they mix in bizarre and novel ways we call dreams.

My experience seems to affirm this.

I demanded that I should have the right to terminate the contract without paying a penalty if the line issue occurs again. But alas, I have no such right.

But, I do have a choice to get another broadband line just in case and it's a matter of whether I think it is worth to do so.

From soccer field on Flickr. :mrgreen:

The widely accepted theory-that the pyramids were crafted of carved-out giant limestone blocks that workers carried up ramps-had not only not been embraced by everyone, but as important had quite a number of holes.

The sample chemistries the researchers found do not exist anywhere in nature. "Therefore," says Barsoum, "it's very improbable that the outer and inner casing stones that we examined were chiseled from a natural limestone block."

Egyptologists are consistently confronted by unanswered questions: How is it possible that some of the blocks are so perfectly matched that not even a human hair can be inserted between them? Why, despite the existence of millions of tons of stone, carved presumably with copper chisels, has not one copper chisel ever been found on the Giza Plateau?

Although Barsoum's research has not answered all of these questions, his work provides insight into some of the key questions. For example, it is now more likely than not that the tops of the pyramids are cast, as it would have been increasingly difficult to drag the stones to the summit.

Why do the results of Barsoum's research matter most today? Two words: earth cements.

"How energy intensive and/or complicated can a 4,500 year old technology really be? The answer to both questions is not very," Barsoum explains. "The basic raw materials used for this early form of concrete-limestone, lime, and diatomaceous earth-can be found virtually anywhere in the world," he adds. "Replicating this method of construction would be cost effective, long lasting, and much more environmentally friendly than the current building material of choice: Portland cement that alone pumps roughly 6 billion tons of CO2 annually into the atmosphere when it's manufactured."

"Ironically," says Barsoum, "this study of 4,500 year old rocks is not about the past, but about the future."

Until he was 17, my son was unique and funny and odd. He was difficult in some ways but incredibly easy in others. He washed the family's dishes precisely, went to bed at exactly the same time each night, and sorted our mail into careful piles. He did fairly well in school -- above average in math, a little below in social studies -- and spent his weekends playing tournament-level chess. He was a loner, but sweet and articulate and very close to his only brother.

Then junior year came. He met a girl, he went to a dance, he thought life was better. And for a night it was. Then the dance ended, the girl decided she was interested in someone else, and the boy became depressed.

.. after six months, I took him to a psychologist who recommended a psychiatrist who put him on a newfangled antidepressant she said would have the added benefit of controlling some of his obsessive tendencies, like stacking the dishes and sorting the mail.

I didn't want to control those things -- to me, these weren't symptoms, they were characteristics of my son. And I'd fought for 17 years to keep him drug-free. But the psychiatrist and the psychologist and several family members insisted: He'd become unhappy, his routines were getting in the way of his developing a social life. This pill, they said, would help him.

Instead, he gained 30 pounds and began to lose his mind.

It happened slowly, over a period of months. First his grades began to fall. There were some random episodes of violence -- nothing major, just an out-of-control moment here or there. A tendency to stand up from the dinner table, after a full meal, and walk to Arby's for a snack. Eerie giggles that seemed involuntary. A flat expression on his once-curious face.

Senior year, he started an after-school job at an auto parts factory but lost it when he couldn't keep up with even the elderly workers. He stopped speaking to his brother entirely and even hit him several times. He lost interest in music, computers and chess.

..

---

..

Then we drove to Rochester to meet with the nine practitioners who'd been called in to assess our son. It was an interesting case, they told us -- and instructive. Within three days, they'd performed a series of medical tests and evaluations, determining that our son was neither schizophrenic nor psychotic. He was autistic, exhausted, improperly medicated, borderline diabetic, and simply stuck. It would take them perhaps a month to detox his body of all the drugs and treat the underlying catatonia that had dogged him for more than a year.

"This occurs in about 15 percent of all young people with autism," the team lead told us. "We don't know yet why it happens, but we can treat it."

And then they did. Magically, it seemed. On the morning after they began their regimen -- a combination of therapies that they orchestrated like a carefully choreographed dance -- our son awoke and stretched, clear-eyed, to ask us if we'd like to play a game of hearts. And after a slightly shaky start, he shot the moon, gathering all the tricks with controlled sweeps of his right hand, flashing us a shy but satisfied smile.

Side effects like our son's -- almost certainly caused by a unique combination of the drugs and autistic catatonia -- were not explicitly cited. These facts, however, were:

"In Minnesota, psychiatrists collected more money from drug makers from 2000 to 2005 than doctors in any other specialty," the Times reported. "Total payments to individual psychiatrists ranged from $51 to more than $689,000, with a median of $1,750. Since the records are incomplete, these figures probably underestimate doctors' actual incomes."

May 30, Spurs slams Jazz at home to win series in 5! Spurs already the playoff final Champion!? Neither of 2 Eastern final contenders looks capable to beat Spurs! :)

May 31, LeBron James carried Cavaliers to a victory over Pistons in game 5 with a score of 109-107 in double-overtime by scoring his team's last 25 points!! 8O

Jun 2, Cavaliers defeat Pistons in 6! Wow! Rookie, Gibson has outshone his hero Billups in this series! 8O It's a good fortune when Hughes injured his left foot in game 3! :)

Cavs set trap to beat Pistons

Fact or fiction: Does LeBron have help? Will Spurs steamroll Cavs?

Jun 14, Yes! It's finally over! Spurs swept Cavs for their fourth championship since 1999! (They won in 1999, 2003, 2005)

Duncan says his fourth ring finest of all.

오늘 아침에 친구를 만나 기로 했어요. 그렇지만 바쁜 일이 생겨서 못 만났어요.

그러니까 취소 하려고 전화 했어요. 약속 못 지켰어요.

I don't remember having to learn the vertex, focus, and directrix of the parabolas or the center, vertices, foci, and eccentricity of the hyperbola. Other than that, it is ok.

Just a note to Factor the polynomial x³ - 27 without knowing the formula.

First, when x = 3, x³ - 27 = 0 , so (x - 3) is a factor if it can be factored.

By using long division, one can find the other factor.

        x2 + 3x + 9
x - 3  /x3 - 27
     -  x3 - 3x2
           3x2 - 27
        -  3x2 - 9x
               9x - 27
           -   9x - 27

Looks like I may need to use non ADSL broadband.

Introverts aren't just less sociable than extroverts; they also engage with the world in fundamentally different ways. While outgoing people savor the nuances of social interaction, loners tend to focus more on their own ideas—and on stimuli that don't register in the minds of others. Social engagement drains them, while quiet time gives them an energy boost.

Contrary to popular belief, not all loners have a pathological fear of social contact. "Some people simply have a low need for affiliation," says Jonathan Cheek, a psychologist at Wellesley College. "There's a big subdivision between the loner-by-preference and the enforced loner."

Amanda Guyer, a psychologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has found that socially withdrawn people have increased sensitivity to all kinds of emotional interactions and sensory cues, which may mean that they find pleasure where others do not.

John Cacioppo, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, has highlighted social isolation as a health-risk factor on par with obesity and smoking. "Loneliness is like hunger and thirst—a signal to help your genes survive," Cacioppo says.

Van Gundy, however, said on Friday that he told Alexander that he should choose a coach with whom he agreed on a style of play, but did not suggest that the Rockets begin a coaching search. He said he would have been happy to return had Alexander indicated he wanted him back.

``It was never a question of me evaluating,'' Van Gundy said. ``It was a question of me being somewhere not because the record was good enough, but because I was where I had the support of the owner.

``In that meeting, Les and I and Daryl and Dennis (Lindsey, the Rockets vice president for basketball operations had, I said to Les, ''Obviously you don't agree to me on important things and you owe it to yourself to find someone you agree with.`` If I was told 'I want you to be here and you're the guy,' I would have told them right then, 'I'm in.' ''

Safe to say, Rockets owner Les doesn't agree with Van Gundy style of play! All the best to Van Gundy! It's time to enjoy a break and being an ESPN guest analyst.

Who will be the next coach? Adelman!?

학교에 가요.

학교에 갔어요.

맥주 많이 마셔요.

맥주 많이 마셨어요.

약속을 못 지켜요.

약속을 못 지켰어요.

친구를 만나요.

친구를 만났어요.

영화를 보고 싶어요.

영화를 보고 싶었어요.

도봉산에 갈까 해요.

도봉산에 갈까 했어요.

The turtle and the Ho Hoan Kiem - also called Ho Guom or Lake of the Restored Sword - are very famous, as both the lake and the animal are closely attached to the legend of King Le Loi returning the precious sword to the turtle genius of Ho Luc Thuy (the former name of Ho Guom during that period of time) in the 15th century.

Ho Guom’s turtles have been living in the witness of many Hanoians as well as tourists, reminders of the historical pages in the heroic struggle of Vietnam.

For all Hanoians, Hoan Kiem’s turtle is a supernatural animal, and is a living treasure of the city.

According to Prof Duc, turtles in the lake belong to a soft shell species measuring nearly two metres in length and weighing over 200 kilograms. Few know of the 130 species of the micro-algae family, and 33 endemic species that exist solely in the lake.

It is a very rare long surviving animal threatened with extinction.

Prof Duc believes the turtle that made off with Le Loi's sword is still living in the lake. That would make it about 550 years old.

Cryptomundo.com » Hoan Kiem’s Giant Turtle

The default string rendering of the library doesn't handle unicode string. Below describes how I handle it.

import stringtemplate

class UnicodeStrRenderer(stringtemplate.AttributeRenderer):
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    def str(self, o):
        return o.encode('utf8')


dir = "tmp"
tgrp = stringtemplate.StringTemplateGroup('test', dir)
tgrp.registerRenderer(unicode, UnicodeStrRenderer())

There is a bug in StringTemplateGroup getAttributeRenderer.

    def getAttributeRenderer(self, attributeClassType):
        if not self.attributeRenderers:
            if not self.superGroup:
                return None # no renderers and no parent?  Stop.
            # no renderers; consult super group
            return self.superGroup.getAttributeRenderer(attributeClassType)

        if self.attributeRenderers.has_key(attributeClassType):
            renderer = self.attributeRenderers[attributeClassType]
        else:
            # no renderer registered for this class, check super group
            if not self.superGroup: return None # add this line to fix
            renderer = self.superGroup.getAttributeRenderer(attributeClassType)
        return renderer

"A precedent wasn't necessary here," Jackson said. "The rule with respect to leaving the bench area during an altercation is very clear.

"Historically, if you break it, you will get suspended, regardless of what the circumstances are."

Speaking specifically about the Horry-Nash incident, Suns owner Robert Sarver told reporters in Phoenix on Tuesday night: "The way this worked out for us, it was, I believe, extremely unfair. . . . The team that plays dirty should not be rewarded and the team that plays fair should not be penalized."

"The rule is the rule," Jackson said.

"It's not a matter of fairness. It's a matter of correctness."

Quite a dumb rule no doubt! especially if another instigating team will get rewarded for a dirty foul in subsequent playoff matches. Jackson also contradicts the purpose of a rule for isn't a rule employed for the purpose of enforcing fair play!

Given that the two players are not involved in any altercation, it is sufficient reason that they should not be suspended a game. (And if a rule is to be followed regardless, they should change it to allow the players to serve the suspension in the following regular season in such cases) This is an unfortunate situation if Horry didn't mean to give Nash a cheap foul so as to provoke Suns team. Given that after Dallas had exited from the playoffs, either of these two teams Spurs and Suns are viewed as the favorite team to win the Western conference champion and also perhaps the overall NBA champion, the suspension must have pissed off many fans unless you are a Spurs fan.

Will the refs balance the next game by calling more fouls on Spurs though?! :)

As what Fran said in his blog, there is only one thing to do: root for Game 7.

It's just common sense," Patterson said. "I try to see why you aren't balanced. None of us is perfect physically or mentally or spiritually. We get into strains, and strains become compensations.

"A specialist looks at one particular thing. If you go to a neurologist, he's not going to start by looking at your feet. There's is a missing link between medicine and therapy, and it's determining the trigger. What came first to get you out of balance?"

Frequently, the trigger isn't obvious. McGrady came to Waco for help in coping with back spasms. Patterson started not with McGrady's back but rather with his knees.

"Everybody looks at his back, and they miss the fact that his head is pulled to the right, his right shoulder is dropped forward and when he goes to sit down, he puts his hands down to steady himself, which means he has very little leg strength," Patterson said.

"When his legs would get fatigued, his back would start hurting, and the thing that mystified everyone is that it would hurt on the left side one week and the right side the next week. All the textbooks say that doesn't happen. No one had ever looked at his knees or ankles or the fact he had flat feet, which meant he rolled his foot inward when he ran, which put stress on the outside (of his legs)."

"There are so many young pitchers and football players who have all the potential in the world but never have a chance because of a simple injury, and then operations and therapy make the situation worse," Patterson said. "The kick in this for me is seeing great athletes perform at their potential as long as they can."

Which Programming Language are You?

I only learn and use Prolog during my university days.

I also caught a glimpse of my dream later with monsters chasing me around in a modern environment. Perhaps, as a result of playing Battle for Wesnoth! :)

I have to suppose our mind does a lot of thinking during our sleep and perhaps more so in certain ways than when we are conscious during the day. Dreams then is perhaps one way in which our unconscious helps in personality integration.

East:

West:

May 19, Spurs won the series 4 - 2 at home! It's a pity - No Game 7! If there is one guy you wanted him to win a championship, he would have to be Nash! :)

I'm going to school to study English too.

나도 영어를 공부하러 학교에 가요.

Let's meet outside the shop. See you later!

가게 앞에서 만납시다. 이따가 봐요.

Enjoy your meal.

맛있게 드세요.

I'll really have to go to hospital.

정말 병원에 가야겠어요.

Just pay 15,000 won, then.

그럼 일만오천원 네세요.

It takes about 15 minutes.

십오분 쯤 걸려요.

How's business these days?

요즘 사업은 어떼요?

Give me the cheapest one, please.

제일 싼 건 좀 주세요.

The weather is good nowadays.

요즘 날씨가 좋아요.

I came to meet Mr. Pak from the Korean embassy.

한국데사관의 박선셍님 마나러 왔어요.

I can't eat spicy things.

메운 것 못 먹어요.

Does the bus for the post office stop at this stop?

우체국 가는 버스가 여기 서요?

a. Where are you going?

b. (answer)

a. What are you going to buy/do/drink/eat there?

b. (answer)

Here is the information you need for the answers:

a. kage ojingŏ

b. hakkyo yagu

c. shiktang pulkogi

d. chip cha-

e. shijang kwail

어디 가요?

가게에 가요.

뭐 사러 가게에 가요?

오징어 사러 가게에 가요.

학교에 가요.

뭐 하러 학교에 가요?

야구 하러 학교에 가요.

식당에 가요.

뭐 먹으러 식당에 가요?

불고기 먹으러 식당에 가요.

집에 가요.

뭐 하러 집 가요?

자러 집에 가요.

시장에 가요.

뭐 사러 시장에 가요?

과일 사러 시장에 가요.

ha-

haeyo, hago, hapshida

tat- (shut)

tadayo, tatko, tatŭpshida

p'al-

p'arayo, p'algo, p'apshida (l disappears before all endings that have 2 forms)

pappŭ- (delete ŭ before adding polite style ending as if for a consonant base either ŏyo or ayo)

pappayo, pappŭgo, pappŭpshida

umjigi- (move)

umjigyŏyo, umjigigo, umjigipshida

몇 시 에요?

3 세시

8.30 여덜시 반

10.45 여시 사십오 분

7.20 일곱시 이십 분

6.10 여섣시 일십 분

8.15 여덜시 일십오 분

kŭrŏm, kach'i kayo.

In that case, we go together.

onŭl chŏmshim-e shigan-i issŏyo?

Do you have free time at lunchtime today?

chinccha oraeganman-ieyo.

It's really long time no see.

chŏ-nun ilbon mal sŏnsaengnim-i anieyo.

I am not the Japanese language teacher.

choesong hamnida. ch'akkak haessŏyo.

I am sorry. I made a mistake.

taŭm wolyoir-un ama koench'an-ŭlkŏeyo

Next Monday will probably be ok.

chŏ-do Sŏwul saram-i ani-rasŏ chal morugessŏyo.

Since I am not from Soul also, I doesn't know well.

chŏnshin-i ta ap'ŭ-gunyo. An ap'un te-ga issŏyo?

(I am surprise) Your whole body hurts. Is there anywhere not in pain?

yŏngguk ton-ŭl chungguk ton-ŭro pakku-go ship'ŏyo.

I want to change from English currency to Chinese currency.

kŭrigo chŏ-nun naengmyŏn-do mŏk-ko ship'ŏyo.

And I want to eat thin noodles as well.

marŭn anju-hago p'ajŏn chuseyo.

Please give me dried snack and korean pancake.

han sangja-e iman won-e kajyŏ-gaseyo.

You can take 1 box at 20000 won.

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Many thanks to the technician!

And then another 2 days after they sent a wrong guy down! :(