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World debt comparison: The global debt clock

World debt comparison: The global debt clock

Ikea Science Fiction by Susana Polo | 11:53 am, May 9th, 2011 I could make some joke here about how Ikea directions always make me feel like I’m expected to build something that’s bigger on the inside, but I actually have never had that much trouble following Ikea directions THERE I SAID IT. Seriously, if you’ve ever put together some Lego sets, you already have all the experience you need. No, the problem I always seem to have is with the furniture where you have to pick up extra parts that aren’t expressly mentioned all over the boxes of the parts you already have, and I find that I’ve left a vital element of a bed, like the bits that hold up the mattress, at the warehouse. And then I sleep on the couch. (via College Humor.)

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Images of the social and economic world Here is an ordinary map of the world: Click on image for a larger version Roughly speaking, on a map like this, the sizes of the countries of the world are in proportion to their actual sizes on the surface of the planet and their shapes are the same as their actual shapes. (This is only approximate though, since some distortion is inevitable when you go from a spherical planet to a flat map.) It's possible, however, and sometimes very useful, to redraw the map with the sizes of countries made bigger or smaller in order to represent something of interest. Such maps are called cartograms and can be an effective and natural way of portraying geographic or social data. Here, for example, is a cartogram that shows the human population of the countries of the world: Population Notice also how the lines of latitude and longitude have become distorted by the growing and shrinking countries. Gross domestic product Now here are a few more cartograms. Child mortality People living with HIV/AIDS

2_Darwin%20tree-11130.html from suntimes.com When I began as a film critic, Jean-Luc Godard was widely thought to have reinvented the cinema with "Breathless" (1960). Now he is almost 80 and has made what is said to be his last film, and he's still at the job, reinventing. If only he had stopped while he was ahead. That would have been sometime in the 1970s. The thousands of seats in the Auditorium Debussy were jammed, and many were turned away. Continue reading → An article reflecting on 25 years at the movies by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. Continue reading → An essay about Rod Blagojevich by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → Roger Ebert's essay on film in the 1978 edition of the Britannica publication, "The Great Ideas Today." Continue reading → Thank you. Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading →

IACenter.org Papageorgaki Bros - Αφοί Παπαγεωργάκη Καλώς ήλθατε Η εταιρία μας ανταποκρινόμενη στις προκλήσεις και τις απαιτήσεις των νέων τεχνολογιών και των σύγχρονων μορφών διεξαγωγής του "επιχειρείν", σας καλωσορίζει στην ιστοσελίδα της. Στόχος μας είναι να προσφέρουμε στους πελάτες μας ακόμα πιο γρήγορες και άμεσες υπηρεσίες. Η μακροχρόνια εμπειρία μας, μας έχει διδάξει πως στον τομέα των πλυντικών υπηρεσιών τέσσερις είναι οι καθοριστικοί παράγοντες που καταξιώνουν μία εταιρία στην αγορά: Η ποιότητα των προϊόντων, οι ανταγωνιστικές τιμές, το μεγάλο stock ανταλλακτικών, καθώς και το παρεχόμενο after-sales service. Πιστεύουμε πως η εταιρία μας καθ' όλη τη διάρκεια της διαδρομής της έχει καταφέρει να ανταποκριθεί σε όλες αυτές τις αυξημένες απαιτήσεις και αυτός είναι, άλλωστε ο λόγος που πλέον έχουμε αναδειχθεί στη μεγαλύτερη εταιρία του χώρου μας στην Ελλάδα.

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