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same place at different times of day or night, enabling them to calculate how to fly in a straight line. When people come along with their portable miniature suns and moons and a moth flies past, the light confuses it. It assumes it must somehow be moving in a curved path, because its position in relation to the stationary sun or moon, has unexpectedly changed. The moth then adjusts its course until it sees the light as stationary again. With a light source so close, the only way this is possible is

resembled a freshly painted fire truck. One must never own up to a fart in public. That is the unwritten law, the single most stringent protocol of American etiquette. Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is denial. The witless Dudley Franklin was too honest to do that, however, and he never lived it down. From that day on, he was known as Excuse-Me

agencies. He has worked as the chief architect and manager of engineering teams for 15 years in the areas of system software, Internet applications, and mobile commerce applications for customers in the United States, Japan, Germany, and India. He is an expert in Content Management Systems (CMS). Since co-founding CIGNEX in late 2000, he has successfully delivered more than 50 CMS applications using various open-source technologies. He has written a number of articles on opensource CMS; he is an experienced

decisions between development time and cost. Often the cheapest way to develop a system would be to hire one good programmer and allow her ten or twenty years to write the system, allowing her years of detouring to perhaps master the domain, become an expert in database administration, and so on. Obviously though, we can rarely wait twenty years for a system and so we engage teams. A team of thirty may spend a year (thirty person-years) developing what a lone programmer could have done in twenty. The

into circulation and used the interest earned for colonial expenses. The colonial fiat currencies dramatically improved life in the colonies, facilitated the building of real infrastructure, reversing the flow of emigrants who for decades had been moving back to England. Dutch and English laws forbade sending money to the colonies. By necessity we became a monetary laboratory trying everything from agricultural and metallic commodities to ‘land banks.’ Finally Massachusetts issued paper “bills

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diminution de la circulation des grands quotidiens et la crise des média. Les effets de la concentration des supports médiatiques aux mains de quelques grands groupes industriels de la communication sont une première raison. En France, en particulier, on a assisté au cours des dernières années à des fusions, regroupements, achats de titres par des groupes industriels cherchant au mieux à se diversifier, au pire à contrôler les informations et à trouver des accords tacites avec le monde politique. Ainsi,

time. These could include financial difficulties, a serious illness (our own or that of someone close to us), trouble at work or an important relationship breakdown, and even events that one might think of as being positive, such as having a baby, moving house or starting college. It can also develop after traumatic events, such as abuse or a serious accident. A client of Ivan's, for instance, developed an anxiety disorder after enduring an unexpected, dramatic and cruel humiliation at work. Some

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