Iraqi-American rapper TIMZ responds to the war with this video, simply titled “Iraq.” The first verse is meant to be from the perspective of an Iraqi, the second from an American. Both have the intensity that has made the genre such an effective avenue for political and social commentary.
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts_The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hopes to
mobilize the world's brainpower to solve one of its most troubling problems:
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
MIT officials are inviting individuals or teams from any country to
participate in its "Just Jerusalem" competition. The contest aims to find a
way to make Jerusalem "just, peaceful and sustainable" by 2050 so that
Palestinians and Israelis can live side by side in a city both consider
their capital.
The school will accept entries between March 31 and Dec. 31, The Boston
Globe reported. MIT will announce the winners next March.
Diane Davis, co-director of the project and associate dean of MIT's School
of Architecture and Planning, said inquiries about entering the competition
have come from the Palestinian city of Ramallah and from Israel, Ecuador,
Greece and the United States.
MIT can bring a "veneer of neutrality" to the issue, Davis said.
"We have a reputation for using serious, scholarly methods to solve
problems," she said. "We're a science and technology institution, and
there's a sense that science stands above politics."
Israel named West Jerusalem its capital in 1950 and annexed Arab East
Jerusalem after capturing it from Jordan in the Six Day War in 1967. In
1980, Israel passed a law declaring Jerusalem to be its "eternal, undivided"
capital. Palestinians view East Jerusalem as the capital of their future
state.
Dennis Ross, a U.S. envoy to the peace process during the Clinton
administration, said in previous negotiations the two sides were close to an
agreement on Jerusalem. Ross said the chief problem has long been what to do
about governing and sovereignty in the complex that Muslims call al-Haram
al-Sharif and Jews call the Temple Mount.
"These are problems that should be solved, and I believe can be solved," he
said.
"The main value of a contest like this is to show that people care enough to
try to find solutions," he said.
The competition's nine-member jury includes a Palestinian scholar and a
former deputy mayor of Jerusalem.
Winners of four categories on the rebuilding of Jerusalem, from renovating
buildings to revamping its economy, and a fifth floating category will each
receive a $50,000 (?37,450) MIT fellowship.
MIT's Just Jerusalem contest: http://web.mit.edu/justjerusalem/
Let me ask you a legitimate question:
How does your organization control code versioning ?
IT departments will often struggle with this unless of course your organization writes software in which case a versionning software is a must and more likely the IT department will tag along and use a Depot. Among the bunch in the market the most famous are : Perforce, CVS, OldVersion.
So most likely, the last version in your release branch will exist on your production system. Suppose however that you have some doubt there could be discrepencies between your Version software and what s on production. How do u go about getting that code from production ???
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SICK LEAVE
> > > I urgently needed a few days off work, but I knew the Boss would not allow me to take a leave. I thought that maybe if I acted "CRAZY" then he would tell me to take a few days off. So I hung upside down from the ceiling and made funny noises.
> > > My coworker (who's blonde) asked me what I was doing. I told her that I was pretending to be a light bulb so that the Boss would think I was “CRAZY" and give me a few days off.
> > > A few minutes later the Boss came into the office and asked "What are you doing?" I told him I was a light bulb. He said "You are clearly stressed out. Go home and recuperate for a couple of days."
> > > I jumped down and walked out of the office. When my coworker (the blonde) followed me, the Boss said to her, "And where do you think you're going?"
> > > She said, "I'm going home too, I can't work in the dark!"
One of Marks & Spencer's main overseas clothes suppliers is embroiled in a recognition battle with a trade union affiliated to an opposition Islamist party in Morocco. The dispute is disrupting production and has led to a spate of sit-ins and arrests of its workforce.
The British company Dewhirst, which closed factories in the UK and transferred production of womenswear to Tangier in Morocco in 2002, is in dispute over conditions, pay and claims that it discriminates against unionists.
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I thought this article got most of it right...
But, I also thought they missed the most important item.
* Give them useful, meaningful, important things to do
I hated writing shelf-ware in a former life. Nothing was worse then working on a project you knew no one would probably use. I would rather work on a small, no fame/no glory project - that would get used; way before I worked on something big, huge, but useless.
Give me something meaningful - that is perhaps the most important thing.
More than their 8, but their 8 are important too mostly.....
A ce propos , s'il s'avérait , un tant soit peu qu'après vérification qu'il y a une fausse
réduction ...qui utilse par exemple la "Loi pareto" : les vingt % représentant la population
significative , peu ou prou concernée par la baisse annoncée :le cas tomberait-il sous le coup
de la loi sur la "publicité mensongère"?
Voir le Daloz par exemple !
Et de ce fait l'organe de régulation lui-même serait en porte à faux !
ce problème relève totalement de la protection du consommateur
où l'état lui même est défaillant !...
à suivre donc par la publication des nouveaux tarifs par pays ...à titre d'exemple...
pour ne pas aller à une diffamation .
Une personne a été tuée et quatre autres ont été blessées dans une explosion dimanche soir dans un cybercafé au quartier Sidi Moumen à Casablanca, apprend-on auprès de la direction générale de la sûreté nationale (DGSN).
Dimanche 11 mars 2007 vers 22h, deux personnes se sont introduites dans un cybercafé sis au quartier Sidi Moumen, avenue Al Adarissa, à Casablanca, pour essayer de consulter des sites internet faisant l'apologie du terrorisme", indique la même source.
"Empêchés par le fils du propriétaire du cybercafé, l'un des deux individus a été emporté par une charge explosive dissimulée sous ses vêtements et est décédé sur le champ tandis que l'autre, légèrement blessé, a pris la fuite avant d'être arrêté par les services de sécurité", précise-t-on de même source.
"Le fils du propriétaire et deux autres personnes qui se trouvaient à l'intérieur du cybercafé ont été légèrement blessés et évacués sur les urgences", conclut la même source.
Une enquête a été ouverte pour déterminer les circonstances de l'explosion.
Someone shared this with me and I really got excited. This is the first "true" english show that bridges culture and religion (islam). Of course this is not something that will end up on FOX someday But Imagine the traffic this is getting on YouTube !
Tell me what you think (comments) once you are done watching the episode.
-Thanks
Supporting a Database really boils down to one of two things: Proactive and Reactive.
You could wait until something goes wrong and fix it.
Or you could adopt some measure to prevent bad things from happening to the DB.
The number one cause of degrading performance on DB is offensive SQL. That is Code written to run against the DB, but taking ages to complete and release
ressources for other process to use.
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Don't you just love sitting in a technical meeting and hearing all the jargon that flies by :) ?
Well, sometimes some of the sentences mentioned are heard over and over. I wanted to capture the most common ones and see how you can address them properly :).
Concept:
The oracle Shared pool is the area where things (objects) are loaded for execution compilation (all database operations).
Pinning refers to the concept of keeping an object in the shared pool area.
The main reason to keep objects in shared memory is to improve system performance.
If the object is a code object such as a procedure, package, etc., you can pin the code in the cache to stop it from being removed.
How about you try to find out which objects are being loaded way to many times into the shared pool ?
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-thanks for reading
