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I wonder which of these two made the greater contribution to humanity? - Winckel

You can't have 1 without the other... - Halil

:-) - Winckel

one of yours? - Halil

Adele has confirmed she has recorded the theme for the forthcoming James Bond film, Skyfall. She posted a picture of the song credits on her official Twitter page. It comes after months of rumours and other people, aside from Adele, discussing it. Traditionally, Sony Pictures, which distributes the Bond movies, and Eon Productions, the company in charge of Bond, issue a joint press release about who will be singing the theme song. Sony has repeatedly declined to comment on speculation about the theme. Adele's photo appears to show the cover page of the sheet music for the Skyfall theme. It lists the composers as A. Adkins, the singer's full name, and P. Epworth - the producer and co-writer of her hit single Rolling In The Deep. The music has been arranged by Epworth and film composer JAC Redford, whose credits include The Help, The Iron Lady and Wall-E. Adele first hinted she would be working on the theme song during an interview on Jonathan Ross's chat show on ITV1 in September 2011.... more... - Winckel from Bookmarklet

I had a feeling SF would be a letdown - Guy

:-) - Winckel

lol - TaS

"Europe's golfers celebrated in style after producing one of the greatest comebacks in sporting history to retain the Ryder Cup. The team, captained by Spaniard Jose Maria Olazabal, overturned a 10-6 deficit to defeat the United States by 14½ points to 13½ points on a thrilling final day in Chicago. They won the match while wearing the colours of Olazabal's compatriot and close friend, the late Seve Ballesteros, who helped Europe to five Ryder Cup wins during a glittering career as a player and captain." - Winckel from Bookmarklet

the first one is very beautiful - Winckel

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"Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is to be the lead ship of her class of United States Navy supercarriers. As announced by the U.S. Navy on 16 January 2007, the ship will be named after the 38th President of the United States, the late Gerald R. Ford, whose World War II naval service included combat duty aboard the light aircraft carrier Monterey in the Pacific Theater.[4] The keel of the Gerald R. Ford was laid down on 13 November 2009.[2] Construction began on 11 August 2005, when Northrop Grumman held a ceremonial steel cut for a 15-ton plate that will form part of a side shell unit of the carrier. The schedule calls for the ship to join the U.S. Navy’s fleet in 2015. Gerald R. Ford is slated to replace the current USS Enterprise, ending her then 50-plus years of active service with the United States Navy.[5] Contents [hide] 1 Ship naming 2 Design and development 2.1 Flight deck 2.2 Power generation 2.3 Launch systems 2.4 Communications 2.5 Possible upgrades 3 Construction 4 Wikimedia... more... - Winckel from Bookmarklet

vondelpark, a beautiful park in amsterdam. paul ehrenfest killed his son and himself here in the 1930's, disillusioned and confused about his progress in helping explore quantum reality. - Winckel

This park was.. errh, is my all time favourite place in Amsterdam and one of the finest locations in the city. - Mistaken Identity

Taken by Paul Ehrenfest who committed suicide in Vondelpark. I would have loved to have been around at Solvay, so many incredible people and such amazing progress in understanding reality. It takes my breath away. - Winckel

Devonshire was one of my early ship models. - Winckel

1959, Sport calendar DOSO Marine disciplines – international, national and local competitions, national teams or Marine Club’s teams. 2,000,000 participants at republic Spartakiada ( typical mass sport soc event) :-) Yes, it is me, at left above, at that time. https://secure.flickr.com/photos... BSFS has its own sport calendar, too.... more... - Slavomira

I had hoped to avoid the gangnam meme.... - Winckel

"British men typically have bigger penises than the French - but are less well endowed than German guys, new research claims. The average British man's penis is apparently 5.5in when erect - coming ahead of the French at 5.3in, Australians (5.2in), Americans (5.1in) and Irish (5in). And it towers over the average manhood in North and South Korea - the smallest in the study at a mere 3.8 in. But British men do not have a great deal to shout about in the trouser stakes - coming only 78th out of 113 nationalities covered in the study. The men of Africa's Republic of Congo are best equipped of all at 7.1 in. They are closely followed by Ecuadoreans at 7in, Ghanaians at 6.8in and Colombians at 6.7in. In Europe, Icelanders are the best endowed at 6.5in and the Irish are the second smallest at 5.03in - behind only Romanians at 5.01in. Africans have the biggest penises at an average of 6.3in and north-east Asians the smallest at 4.2in. Brits come in just under the Germans, who are bang on the... more... - Winckel from Bookmarklet

Feeling above average *looks for yardstick* - Greg GuitarBuster

Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday which prohibited people under the age of 18 from undergoing sexual orientation change therapy. The move marks a major victory for gay rights advocates who say the therapy, also called reparative therapy, has no medical basis because homosexuality is not a disorder. The bill had support from the American Psychiatric Association, California Psychological Association and the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, among others. Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin said: "LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) youth will now be protected from a practice that has not only been debunked as junk science, but has been proven to have drastically negative effects on their well-being." He urged other states to follow California's lead. State Senator Ted Lieu, the bill's sponsor, said in a statement that Mr Brown had signed the bill. Mr Lieu said the psychiatrist who pioneered the therapy, Dr Robert Spitzer, has since renounced it and... more... - Winckel from Bookmarklet

certainly is :-). I love the big brush strokes and really confident lines, like Van Gogh wore his heart on his sleeve - Winckel

"Apple is pretty much the king of the closed PC platforms. This is the company that won't let anyone else make Mac PCs. Yet, Microsoft is still going to allow anyone who wants to build a PC from scratch a way to get an OEM copy of Windows 8. You have a very successful version of Minecraft on the Mac and iOS platforms. You didn't have a problem with Apple's closed systems policy when you launched the iOS or Mac versions." - Jemm from Bookmarklet

this makes me smile - Winckel

chilly :-) - Winckel

;-) Hi,Winckel You got my attention with this link. I connected it with their celebration of 100 years military air forces. As I do not like widespread usages of photos, obviously from somewhere, but not pointed exactly, I did research on only track- the name of the photographer. So :-) sharing bellow results. - Slavomira

Yes, and you see many other things around. Adore photos :-) - Slavomira

"A courageous 16-year-old boy risked his own life to save a toddler trapped inside a burning home. Nelson Fonangwan was sleeping but leapt into action after hearing the desperate screams of a neighbour and found black smoke billowing from the property in Southampton, Hampshire. Mother-of-two Aneta Jedlikoswka, 32, was frantically trying to punch a hole in her kitchen window to reach her trapped two-year-old son, Adam, who was knocking on the glass from inside. All smiles: Nelson Fonangwan (centre), who rescued Aneta Jedlikowska's (centre left) son Adam (near right). Also pictured is Mrs' Jedlikowska daughter Kamila Brodowska (left) and husband Piotr Jedilkowski (right) Nelson, a pupil at Richard Taunton Sixth Form College in the city, smashed his way into the house through the window while his mother called 999, and crawled in before carrying the child to safety. More... Insurance row as police deny riots to blame for fire He told the Southern Daily Echo: ‘I couldn't believe what I... more... - Winckel from Bookmarklet

I don't normally quote from the Torah, made up deities offend me, but I'm reminded of the quote, "He who saves one life, it's as if he saved the entire world." (Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a) - Winckel

I used to build lots of plastic models of planes like this. It was an education :-) - Winckel

"There is a heart-rending interview going around the net with Vaughan Roberts, the rector of St Ebbe's, a hardline evangelical church in Oxford. He is gay, though he wouldn't use the term, and celibate. He talks about two things: the difficulty of remaining celibate, and the difficulty for conservative evangelicals of ever admitting to anyone, even to themselves, that they are in fact gay. A further layer of irony and pain is added to the situation because his interviewer, Julian Hardyman, leads a Cambridge Baptist church where his predecessor was chased out of the job for coming out and announcing he had a partner. What the article makes clear is that, even among conservative evangelicals, it is no longer possible to deal with gay people, and the problems their existence poses, by simple repression. Coming out was obviously a hugely painful business for him. "Close family and friends have known for a considerable time that I experience same-sex attraction … In fact, I included some... more... - Winckel from Bookmarklet

Not sure I agree entirely with Brown's analysis - I've read what god said, you can too here - http://www.biblegateway.com/ - and the dude's a homophobe, no doubt about it. So if you're a christian, and doing what you're told, you're a homophobe too. - Winckel

I bet it smells beautiful - Winckel

we don't see much of that is Surrey, Nemo, looks wonderful - Winckel

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"Apple's chief executive has penned an apology following a barrage of criticism caused by its switch to a new maps system. Tim Cook acknowledged that users had been frustrated by the move and repeated a pledge to improve the software. In the meantime he suggested users download an alternative product from one of its rivals. A link to the letter appears on the firm's home page. Although the company has issued several apologies over recent months, this one is unusual for its prominence and the fact it was written by Mr Cook himself. Other examples since July include a letter from the firm's former head of hardware engineering saying that ditching a green ratings scheme had been "a mistake"; a statement acknowledging that changes to its retail stores had been made in error; and emails to iCloud users apologising for an interruption to their email service." - Son of Groucho from Bookmarklet

Henry, maybe blasphemy laws aren't such a bad idea after all? :-P - Eivind

for getting directions about Austin, you mean. ; ) - Guy

I think that would look rather more convincing from someone who hasn't been using Windows - apparently without any great emotional trauma - for the longest time. Difficult to imagine such sensibilities in the area of mapping software. Not least since as far as I know, Goggle has a website which does mapping too. I think I'm seeing rather less proportionality and rather more schadenfreude than I'm used to. - Winckel

"Every once in a while, a company becomes so obsessed with a competitor that it loses focus on its own customers. They start designing and positioning their products more to hurt rivals than thrill users. And I fear that now it’s happening to Apple. Again. Everybody knows about Apple’s near-death experience in the 90s. But few appreciate why it happened. From 1985 to 1997, Apple went in a series of bizarre product directions. Yes, Apple made some cool stuff back then. But they also made a lot of weird moves that would be inconceivable by the standards of today’s Apple. One small example was that Apple introduced an insanely grating plethora of confusing PC brands, including the Centris, Quadra and Performa lines, which nobody could differentiate. But why? They also launched half-heartedly into all kinds of unexpected consumer electronics directions. They sold digital cameras that were really made by Kodak and Fujifilm. They sold a CD player really made by Philips. Again, why? And they... more... - Son of Groucho from Bookmarklet

I wonder if the contention is true. It generalises and I wonder if that generalisation isn't a step ( or two) too far. Google Maps had long been in the slow lane in iOS, Google refused to support turn-by-turn and vector graphics (we understand), though presumably if Apple had allowed multiple ads and handed over private client data Google would have consented. Maps are an important... more... - Winckel

"Turkey ranks as the sixth most popular tourist destination in the world. In fact, Istanbul alone, with seven million foreign visitors, became the world's 10th most popular tourist destination in 2010" I'm surprised to hear that. didn't think we would have such a high score...guess the pimping efforts worked! :) - grizabella

summer can indeed be warm and humid. the best time, in my opinion, is may and september. eivind, morrocon shops (if there is any) would be my second guess. in amsterdam i used to buy waterpipe tobacco from them. don't remember if they had cappiccino flavour (never asked) but they had good variety. - grizabella

"Strongly criticizing provisions of the Democratic Party platform, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield (Illinois) warned that “a vote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil and gravely sinful makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy.” Bishop Paprocki first discussed the controversy over the inclusion of the word “God” in the party’s platform: After outcries of protest from outside as well as within the Democratic Party, the sentence with the same reference to God used in 2008 was restored to read, "We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential." Before anyone relaxes and concludes that all is well now that the Democratic Party Platform contains a single passing reference to God, the way that this was done should give us pause. Convention chairman... more... - Winckel from Bookmarklet

You can't keep the nutjobs down :) - Winckel

"A week ago today, France shuttered its embassies, consulates, cultural centers, and schools in twenty countries. The reason given was that a satirical newsweekly called Charlie Hebdo had published cartoons satirizing two very different films: “The Intouchables,” just selected as France’s Academy Awards entry in the foreign-language film category; and “Innocence of Muslims,” a film less foreign to those who follow the news than it has any right to be. The cover of the Charlie Hebdo issue in question is a crude depiction of an Orthodox Jewish man pushing a Muslim man in a wheelchair: “The Intouchables 2,” it reads. (The actual “Intouchables” is a cloying tale of a rich white man who, paralyzed in a paragliding accident, hires a poor black man to care for him. Guess who gets his joie de vivre back?) When you turn the pages, you see ungainly caricatures, presented more or less as advertisements for a film—only tenuously connected with the front cover’s spoof—sure to “set the Muslim world... more... - Winckel from Bookmarklet